Trần Phú (1 May 1904 in
Tuy An District – 6 September 1931) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and the first general secretary of the
Indochinese Communist Party
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, later renamed the
Communist Party of Vietnam
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.
Biography
Trần Phú was born on May 1, 1904, at An Thổ, phủ Tuy An, tỉnh Phú Yên (today xã An Dân,
Tuy An District,
Phú Yên Province) where his father, Tran Van Pho, was a teacher. His father was born at the village of Tùng Sinh, now part of Tùng Ảnh commune,
Đức Thọ District
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,
Hà Tĩnh Province
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. Trần Phú graduated ''thành chung'' (general qualification) in 1922 and in 1925 he joined
Hội Phục Việt (later renamed
Tân Việt Cách mạng Đảng
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) in
Vinh
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,
Nghệ An.
[''Tạp chí cộng s̉an'' Đ̉ang cộng s̉an Việt Nam - 1994 Page 25 "Sau khi đỗ đầu kỳ thi Thành chung ở Huế năm 1922, Trần Phú được bổ làm giáo viên trường tiều học Cao Xuân Dục ở thành phố vinh. ... Phong trào đầu tranh đó đã ảnh hướng đến những người trí thức, dẫn đến việc thành lập Hội Phục Việt,"]
In 1926, he went to Canton (
Guangzhou
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), China, to arrange the merger of his organization with the
Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League. In 1927, he went to the
USSR
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and studied at the
Communist University of the Toilers of the East
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in
Moscow
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. In 1928, he attended the sixth session of
Communist International
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. On 11 October 1929, the court of Nam triều in
Nghệ An conducted the trial in absentia of some members of the
Indochinese Communist Party
The Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), km, បក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តឥណ្ឌូចិន, lo, ອິນດູຈີນພັກກອມມູນິດ, zh, t=印度支那共產黨 was a political party which was t ...
; Trần Phú was one of those accused.
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April 1930, he came back to Vietnam and joined the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
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History
The C ...
. He was given the work of editing ''Theses on the bourgeois revolution of civil rights''. On 19 April 1931, he was arrested by the French. He was executed on 6 September 1931.
References
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Vietnamese communists
People from Hà Tĩnh province
Communist Party of Vietnam politicians
1904 births
1931 deaths
Vietnamese expatriates in the Soviet Union
General Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Executed Vietnamese people
20th-century executions by France
Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni