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*Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung* is a summary of the political thought of the main Chinese leader of the 20th century. It contains 427 excerpts from speeches, interviews and articles by Mao (1893-1976), organized into 33 chapters, in which he discusses didactically the various aspects of the struggle for the implementation of socialism. The work became known as "The Little Red Book", due to the color of the cover and the "pocket" format (13 cm x 9 cm) of the editions made from 1964 and massively distributed in communist China, where its reading became a mandatory political ritual. The wave of Maoism that swept the world in the 1960s also encouraged translations, making "The Little Red Book" one of the most edited, most read and most influential works in history.