Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial figures in world history. A philosopher, a connoisseur of Confucius, a poet whose poems amaze with their grace - and at the same time a man who easily controlled the fate of entire peoples with the ease of a capricious monarch. Hedonist, subtle intellectual - and politician who has a nightmare on his conscience " cultural revolution ". Mao Zedong is still considered a sublime genius and a gloomy villain, a fiery revolutionary and an oblique dogmatist. Who was this person after all?