Liu Shaoqi
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Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇 | |
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| Born |
24 November 1898 Ningxiang, Hunan, Qing China, now the PRC |
| Died |
12 November 1969 (aged 70) Kaifeng, Henan, PRC |
| Cause of death | Disease |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Ideology |
Marxism-Leninism (claimed) Revisionism Bukharinism |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Liu Shaoqi[a][b] was a Chinese revisionist politician. He was the 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China and was on track to succeed Mao Zedong as long term Chairman until his ideological deviations and revisionism started to become clear. He was purged during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution for his rightist deviations and disregard for Class struggle. He was later rehabilitated by fellow capitalist roader Deng Xiaoping in 1980.[1]