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Which best describes the rise to power of Mao Zedong?

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I would say that his rise to power was mainly due to his leading the national liberation war against the Japanese occupiers in WWII, and successfully winning this war. There was some fomentation of a cult of personality also in later years that gave him more prominence.
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