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Revision as of 02:42, 16 April 2004 by Formeruser-81 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Communist Party of Vietnam is the ruling party in Vietnam. It is led by General Secretary Nong Duc Manh. It is a Marxist-Leninist organisation. It is supported by (and is a part of) the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. The party was founded by Ho Chi Minh and other exiles living in China as the Vietnam Communist Party but soon changed its name to the Indochinese Communist Party after its founding conference in February 1930. The First National Party Congress was held in secret in Macau in 1935. The party was formally dissolved in 1945 in order to hide its Communist affiliation and its activites were folded into the Viet Minh. The party was refounded as the Vietnam Workers Party at the Second National Party Congress in Tuyen Quang in 1951. The Third National Congress, held in Hanoi in 1960 formalized the tasks of constructing socialism in what was by then North Vietnam and committed the party to carrying out the resoultion in the South. At the Fourth National Party Congress held in 1976 after the North's victory in the Vietnam War the party's name was changed to the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The party is a Marxist-Leninist party run on democratic centralist lines. In 1976 the Central Committee was expanded to 133 members from 77 and the Politburo grew from 11 to 17 members while the Secretariat increased from seven to nine members.
Membership in the party doubled from 760,000 in 1966 to 1,553,500 in 1976, representing 3.1 percent of the total population and was close to two million by 1986. Comparable figures for China (4.2 percent) and the Soviet Union (6.9 percent)
At the Sixth National Party Congress, held in December 1986 Nguyen Van Linh was named general secreatary while a Politburo of fourteen members was elected and teh Central Committee was expanded to 173 members.
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See also: List of Communist Parties, List of political parties in Vietnam, List of political parties
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