Nguyễn Văn Linh

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Nguyễn Văn Linh (Vietnamese: [ŋwǐənˀ vān līŋ̟]; born Nguyễn Văn Cúc; 1 July 1915 – 27 April 1998), also known as Mười Cúc, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1986 to 1991. A leader of the communist movement in southern Vietnam during the wars against France and the United States, he became party leader at the Sixth Congress in December 1986 and was the first general secretary of the Đổi Mới ("renovation") period, which began moving Vietnam from a planned economy towards a socialist-oriented market economy. He was often called the "Vietnamese Gorbachev", after the Soviet leader who introduced perestroika. Born in Hanoi to a family from Hưng Yên province, Linh was imprisoned twice by the French on Côn Đảo. After 1945, he led the party in Saigon and southern Vietnam, and during the Vietnam War, he was secretary and then deputy secretary of the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN). After reunification in 1975, he...

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