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, later renamed the Communist Party of Vietnam.

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, Hà Tĩnh Province. Trần Phú graduated ''thành chung'' (general qualification) in 1922 and in 1925 he joined Hội Phục Việt (later renamed Tân Việt Cách mạng Đảng) in

Vinh Vinh () is the capital of Nghệ An province and an economic and cultural center of North-Central Vietnam. A key point in the East–West economic corridor linking Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, the city is situated in the Southeast of ...

, 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 (

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), China, to arrange the merger of his organization with the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League. In 1927, he went to the

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and studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in

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. In 1928, he attended the sixth session of

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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; Trần Phú was one of those accused. April 1930, he came back to Vietnam and joined the

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: ''Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam''), commonly the Party Central Committee (PCC; - or ), is the highest organ between two national congresses ...

. 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 died on 6 September 1931 due to tortures by the French.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tran, Phu Vietnamese communists People from Phú Yên 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