General Secretary Truong Chinh
General Secretary of the Party from May 1941 to October 1956 and from July 1986 to December 1986
SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE
- 1925: While still a student, he participated in the fight to demand amnesty for Phan Boi Chau.
- 1926: Led a strike in Nam Dinh to mourn Phan Chu Trinh, then was expelled from school.
- 1927: Joined the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association (a predecessor organization of the Indochinese Communist Party)
- 1929: Participated in the movement to establish the Indochinese Communist Party in Bac Ky
- 1930: Appointed to the Central Propaganda and Agitation Committee of the Indochinese Communist Party
- Late 1930: Arrested by the French and sentenced to 12 years in prison and exiled to Son La, released in 1936
- 1936-1939: Member of the Northern Regional Party Committee, representative of the Indochinese Communist Party in the Northern Democratic Front Committee
- 1940: Editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Giai Phong", the organ of the Bac Ky Regional Party Committee. At the 7th Central Conference of the Indochinese Communist Party, he was elected to the Central Executive Committee and appointed as Acting General Secretary of the Party.
- 1941: At the 8th Central Executive Committee Conference, he was elected General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Indochinese Communist Party; Head of the Propaganda Department, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Liberation Flag" (the Party's central organ); Head of the Central Labor Department.
- 1943: Sentenced to death in absentia by French colonialists
- March 9, 1945: Chaired the Central Standing Committee Conference to expand the directive on "Japan and France fighting each other and our actions" and the General Uprising policy.
- August 1945: At the Party's National Conference, he was appointed to be in charge of the National Uprising Committee.
- 1951: At the 2nd Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Executive Committee and held the position of General Secretary until October 1956.
- 1953: Head of the Central Party's Land Reform Committee
- 1958: Appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Science Committee
- July 1960: At the first session of the 2nd National Assembly, he was elected Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee.
- September 1960: At the 3rd Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Executive Committee and the Politburo.
- December 1976: At the 4th Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Executive Committee and the Politburo.
- 1981: Elected by the National Assembly as Chairman of the State Council, Chairman of the National Defense Council of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- March 1982: At the 5th Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Executive Committee and the Politburo.
- July 14, 1986: At the special conference of the Central Executive Committee, he was elected General Secretary of the Party to replace comrade Le Duan who had passed away.
- December 1986: At the 6th Party Congress, he was honored as Advisor to the Party Central Committee.
- September 30, 1988: He passed away in Hanoi.
