Personal+qualities+Mao+and+Stalin

Physical characteristics - Depicted as huge (bad painters shot), but really only 5’4” (Little Squirt) - Smallpox (Seven) Scarred face - Left arm permanently damaged by horse-drawn carriage accidents - Hair began to grey and thin - At time of death, had three of own teeth remaining  Intelligence - Fared well in school - <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Expelled (likely because he was unable to pay tuition) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shrewd <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Personal skills and qualities <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Polite and smooth with foreign dignitaries, rough, coarse and abusive in general <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Son attempted suicide after dealing with him (Can’t even shoot straight) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ability to recruit <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cult of Personality <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Coercion and influence <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Aura of power <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Personal history <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Born in Georgia <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Attended a school where Georgian children were forced to speak Russian <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Got scholarship to Georgian orthodox seminary <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Denied WWI service in army due to arm <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Essentially a bank robber (resigned from party briefly) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Read Lenin, decided to become a Marxist. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Motivation <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Became full-time Bolshevik after he was marked by the Tsar’s secret police <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A fan of power <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ideological, but ideologies fluctuated <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Physical characteristics <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Voice. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Intelligence <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Schooling interrupted often <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Never learned to speak Mandarin <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Heavily influenced by college professor <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Worked in a library <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Became an intellectual <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Personal skills and qualities <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Private life not well known <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Several marriages <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ability to recruit <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cult of Personality <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Propaganda director for KMT <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Personal history <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Born in Hunan <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Worked on farm <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Left for city, studied communism <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Several wives <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Motivation <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Heavily ideological
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Personal qualities – Stalin **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Personal qualities – Mao **