Generational and institutional transition in the Vietnamese communist party: The 1996 congress and beyond

Asian Survey

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 481-492

  Sidel, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 0010653962     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645523     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Lewis Stern outlines Secretariat problems in more detail in Setting Socialism's Agenda: The Vietnamese Communist Party Central Committee from 1991 to 1996 (McFarland, forthcoming).
2. If Nguyen Dinh Tu, who died on June 29, were counted, nine out of 19 members would be new.
3. The party school operates from a main campus in western Hanoi, primarily for short-term training of key younger officials, deputy ministers, and other cadre, and from three regional branches located in Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City. The regional branch schools focus on training for provincial and municipal officials.
4. Variously translated as Central Inspection Department, Party Inspection Commission, Party Control Commission, Party Control Department, Party Control Committee - all refer to the same institution. Since the CC ban are best translated as commission, the term committee is translated here as uy ban for inspection and control within the party.
5. This total is based on a name-by-name review of the new CC list, and the number of female members is subject to confirmation.
6. Voice of Vietnam Radio, Hanoi, 6 August 1996, in BBC, Summary of World Broadcast, August 24, 1996 (FE/D2699/B). Khoa had been virtually unknown outside Vietnam until he presided, along with Hong Ha, Ha Dang, Le Mai, and Party External Relations Vice-Chair Vo Van Tai, at the April 9, 1996, press conference to introduce the Eighth Congress draft political report.
7. The Internal Political Defense Commission is not well known outside Vietnam, and references to it in the Vietnamese press are very infrequent. It is referred to in Bui Tin, Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel, English ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995).
8. Numerous press accounts of Phan's removal appeared in late April-early May 1996, e.g., Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) (9 May), Asian Wall Street Journal (29 April), Financial Times (29 April), South China Morning Post (27 April).
9. Numerous press accounts of Phan's removal appeared in late April-early May 1996, e.g., Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) (9 May), Asian Wall Street Journal (29 April), Financial Times (29 April), South China Morning Post (27 April).
10. Numerous press accounts of Phan's removal appeared in late April-early May 1996, e.g., Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) (9 May), Asian Wall Street Journal (29 April), Financial Times (29 April), South China Morning Post (27 April).
11. Numerous press accounts of Phan's removal appeared in late April-early May 1996, e.g., Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) (9 May), Asian Wall Street Journal (29 April), Financial Times (29 April), South China Morning Post (27 April).
12. AFP (Hanoi), July 1, 1996.
13. Lewis M. Stem, "Party Plenums and Leadership Style in Vietnam," Asian Survey, October 1995.
14. A possible redefinition or expansion of Binh's role is supported by the election of a deputy director of the party school. To Huy Rua, to the CC. Rua is a newcomer to national leadership. Another recent deputy director, Do Nguyen Phuong, also joined the 1996 CC in his current role as Minister of Health.
15. Within the Ministry, Bin has been responsible for internal administration, probably some party affairs, and at times aspects of policy relating to Africa and Latin America. He was trained in Cuba and had earlier worked as one of the Ministry's talented group of Latin Americanists.
16. One of General Huong's deputies, Le Minh Tran, spearheads Interior's work on the United States and heads the Ministry's A15 section. At the invitation of the Ford Foundation during this author's tenure directing its Vietnam programs, Tran joined an international relations research and training delegation to the United States in October 1995 that also included Le Mai.