Nguyen Van Linh
| Nguyễn Văn Linh | |
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| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam | |
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In office 18 December 1986 – 28 June 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Trường Chinh |
| Succeeded by | Đỗ Mười |
| Secretary of the Central Military–Party Committee of the Communist Party | |
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In office 18 December 1986 – 27 June 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Trường Chinh |
| Succeeded by | Đỗ Mười |
| Member of the Politburo | |
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In office June 1985 – 27 June 1991 |
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In office 1976–1982 |
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| Member of the Secretariat | |
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In office 1985 – 27 June 1991 |
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In office 1976–1982 |
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| Personal details | |
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1 July 1915 Duc Tan, Mộ Đức District, Quảng Ngãi Province, Indochina |
| Died | 27 April 1998 (aged 82) Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Political party | Communist Party of Vietnam |
Nguyễn Văn Linh (Vietnamese: [ŋwǐənˀ van lɨŋ]; 1 July 1915 – 27 April 1998) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1986 to 1991 and a political leader of the Vietcong during the Vietnam War. During his time in office, Linh was a strong advocate of "Doi Moi" (renovation), an economic plan whose aim is to turn Vietnam economy to a socialist-oriented market economy. As such, Linh was often touted as the Vietnamese Gorbachev after the Soviet leader, who introduced Perestroika.
Linh was born in Hưng Yên, near Hanoi on July 1, 1915. Though this is unconfirmed, he is likely to have come from a bourgeois family. His original name was Nguyen Van Cuc, he would later adopt Nguyễn Văn Linh as his nom de guerre. At age 14, Linh became involved in underground communist movement against French colonial rule, joining the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. In 1930 at the age of sixteen, Linh was arrested and incarcerated until 1936 for distributing leaflets directed against the French. After his release, he joined the Communist Party of Vietnam. He was sent to Saigon, in the southern part of the country to help establish party cells, causing him to be detained again from 1941 to 1945. In 1945, Vietnam declared its independence from French rule and the First Indochina War ensued. Meanwhile, Linh rose in the party hierarchy becoming a member of the Central Committee in 1960.
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