How did mao zedong affect the political landscape of china?

a) he formed alliances with japan and korea in an effort to spread marxist communism

b) he revived traditional Chinese government based on principles of Confucianism

c) he established a rural form of communism as an alternative to soviet Leninism

d) he overthrew the existing authoritarian leadership and created a fascist dictatorship

c) he established a rural form of communism as an alternative to soviet Leninism

The correct answer is C. Mao Zedong established a rural form of Communism as an alternative to Soviet Leninism.

Explanation:

Mao Zedong was a Chinese politician, the top leader of the Communist Party of China and founder of the People's Republic of China. Under his leadership, the Communist Party seized power in mainland China in 1949, when the new People's Republic was proclaimed, following the victory in the Chinese Revolution against the forces of the Republic of China. The communist victory caused the escape of Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang followers to Taiwan and made Mao the top leader in China until his death in 1976.

On the ideological level, Mao assumed the approaches of Marxism-Leninism but with its own nuances based on the characteristics of Chinese society, very different from the European one. In particular, Mao's communism gives a central role to the peasant class as the engine of the revolution, an approach that differs from the traditional Marxist-Leninist vision of the Soviet Union, which saw the peasants as a class with little capacity for mobilization and assigned urban workers the central role in the class struggle.