Trần Văn Giàu

Trần Văn Giàu (* 1911 in Châu Thành , Long An ; † 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City ) was a Vietnamese politician and historian . He led the activities of the Viet Minh in Cochinchina during the August Revolution . After the end of his political career he became a historian.

Life

Tran Van Giau was trained in France. There he came into contact with radical communist circles. He was one of several dozen Vietnamese who were trained in Communist ideology in Moscow . After two years of training he was sent to French Indochina to help build the Communist Party of Indochina . Tran Van Giau was employed in a leading position within the parei apparatus in Cochinchina . In 1935 he was arrested by the French and imprisoned in Paulo Condore.

After the collapse of French colonial rule in the course of Operation Meigo Sakusen in 1945, Tran Van Giau led the activities of the Viet Minh in the south as chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee. He represented a course of confrontation against the regaining colonial rule that he wanted to counter with a rural guerrilla. He came into conflict with the party ideologist Trường Chinh , who considered him to be undisciplined and thoughtless. From 1949 Tran Van Giau fell behind politically and lost his ministerial post. He worked as a historian and published standard works in line with the party line on the August Revolution 1945.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bruce Lockhart, William J. Duiker: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam , Oxford, 2006, p. 383
2. ^ David G. Marr: Vietnam. State, War And Revolution 1945-1946 . 2013, p. 190, p. 477, p. 505;
   Stein Tønnesson: Vietnam 1946. 2010, p. 205;
   Stein Tønnesson: The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945 - Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and de Gaulle in a World at War, Oslo, 1991 p. 7, p. 21f, p. 102f