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The Three Principles of the People (Nationalism, Democracy, and Livelihood) were the political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen as the foundation for the Republic of China.

The Comintern (Communist International) was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin to promote world revolution.

The CCP stands for Chinese Communist Party whose rule estabilished that single party will rule the country in which the supreme leaders or chairman became powerfull. 

Historical records of the land reform movement in China during the early 1950s indicate that approximately 60 percent of the rural population received redistributed land.

Unlike orthodox Marxism, which focused on the urban proletariat, Mao Zedong adapted revolutionary theory to the Chinese context by focusing on the peasantry as the primary revolutionary force.

After losing the Chinese Civil War to the Communists in 1949, the Kuomintang (Goumindang) government retreated to the island of Taiwan.

The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army, lasting from 1934 to 1935.

The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai in July 1921.

Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, following the victory of the Communists in the civil war.

The Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, marking the full-scale invasion of China by Japan.