Style of Political Role's Performance on the Example of Mao Zedong
Studying of political leadership for the purpose of creating a typology, main aspects of the each type, discovering causes of the incorrect decisions, constructing a model of the effective leader is a relevant academic field. The given article is dedicated to examination of one of the four political leadership's types through the prism of M. Hermann's classification on the example of Mao Zedong. In the article is examined the style of political role's performance, giving consideration to the fact, that acting in difficult historical circumstances, Mao Zedong demonstrated the whole spectrum of leadership traits and gained a complex of authorities which allowed him to concentrate a considerable amount of political power in his hands. The author comments upon peculiar to Mao Zedong eloquence which empowered him to influent masses. In addition, the article scrutinizes Mao Zedong's promotion of his own political program of actions and vision to achieve goals in the course of forming socialism with Chinese characteristic qualities. The author demonstrates that in his style of leader's role performance Mao Zedong belonged to the Crusader type of leadership inasmuch as he offered China a new national idea. Besides, in the article is mentioned that Mao Zedong as a political leader possessed exceptionable charisma which enabled him to force ideas which were not compatible with Chinese realities into the mass conscious and, by doing that, provided himself an extensive social support from hundred millions citizens of RPC who trusted the political reader with realization of ideas which were entirely extraneous to their interests.