Vietnam: Truong Chinh (1907-1988), Nationalist and Communist ideologue

Trường Chinh (pseudonym meaning 'Long March', born Đặng Xuân Khu (1907-1988) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoretician. From 1941 to 1957, he was Vietnam's second-ranked communist leader (after Hồ Chí Minh).

Following the death of Lê Duẩn in 1986, he was briefly Vietnam's top leader. He is remembered as a communist hard liner with strong Maoist tendencies.

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