Trường Chinh

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Trường Chinh, 1955

Trường Chinh / 长征 (original name Đặng Xuân Khu / 鄧 春 區; * February 9, 1907 , † September 30, 1988 ) was a Vietnamese politician and theorist.

Life

Trường Chinh became First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1941. As head of the Truth ( Su That ) organ, he was one of the party's leading theorists. A year after the August Revolution , in his article of the same name, he formulated the goal of establishing a workers-and-peasants state in Vietnam based on the Soviet model.

During the revolutionary period there were extensive seizures, mostly through the initiative of local Viet Minh committees. The aim of the confiscations were larger, mostly French companies, plantations and local landowners. The government supported these efforts as a measure against profiteers from the colonial state, but mostly tried to give preference to economic practicability over social revolution and to curb the confiscations. However, the government itself carried out the nationalization of infrastructure and industrial companies as planned with the aim of creating a socialist economic system.

He followed the Chinese model and implemented land reform in the early 1950s that resulted in famine. Increasingly isolated from the pro-Soviet leaders, he was deposed in 1956. As a result, Trường Chinh slowly returned to power. During the Vietnam War , he realized, the party most advocate of military restraint, that the cost of war against South Vietnam and the United States was too high and prevented the Party from using these means to perfect the revolution in North Vietnam.

After the reunification of Vietnam (1976), Trường Chinh won in 1981 and became President (Chairman of the State Council). In 1987 he resigned for health reasons and because of another power struggle within the party. After Lê Duản's death in July 1986, he was first general secretary of the Communist Party. At a party congress at the end of 1986 he was unable to be confirmed in this position, so that he had to resign.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David G. Marr: Vietnam - State, War And Revolution 1945-1946 . Berkeley 2013, pp. 462f.
personal data
SURNAME Trường Chinh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Truong Xuân Khu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1907
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1988