Trần Phú
Trần Phú 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 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 in 1922 and in 1925 he joined Hội Phục Việt in Vinh, Nghệ An.
In 1926, he went to Canton, China, to arrange the merger of his organization with the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League. In 1927, he went to the USSR and studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow. In 1928, he attended the sixth session of Communist International. 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. 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.
