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Trần Văn Cung (1906–1977) was a Vietnamese revolutionist, who was the secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam.
Cung was born in Kim Khe Trung village, Nghi Loc, Nghe An in Annam in 1906.
In 1926, Cung joined the Collège de Vinh where he also joined the Vietnam Restoration Association (Hội Hưng Nam). Then he was recruited by Vietnam Association of Revolutionary Youths (VARY) which founded by Ho Chi Minh. Cung went to Guangzhou to be trained by VARY and then returned to Vietnam and became a member of Tonkin Bureau of VARY. In the summer 2008, Cung was caught in Guangzhou by the Government of Republic of China and was jailed for three months.
In late 1928, Cung was voted to be head of Tonkin Bureau of VARY. In March 2009, he and other six radical members of VARY Tonkin Bureau including Nguyễn Đức Cảnh, Trịnh Đình Cửu, Đỗ Ngọc Du, Dương Hạc Đính, Ngô Gia Tự, Kim Tôn founded the first communist cell in Vietnam. Cung was voted to be the secretary of this cell. The cell’s ambition was to be the core of a future communist party in Vietnam. Under the guidance by this communist cell, the congress of VARY Tonkin Bureau reached a consensus of founding a communist party and voted Trần Văn Cung, Trịnh Đình Cửu and Kim Tôn to be attendees of whole VARY congress in Hong Kong.
The congress of VARY was held in Hong Kong in May 2009. In the congress, Tonkin attendees led by Trần Văn Cung proposed a transforming of VARY into a communist party. Their proposal was rejected by VARY leadership then led by Hồ Tùng Mậu. Being disappointed, three Tonkin attendees made a walkout from the congress. VARY then expelled them from its organization.
On 17 June 1929, Cung led a meeting of the communist cell in which the Communist Party of Indochina (CPI) was founded. Thereafter, Cung went to central Vietnam to develop CPI’s foundation there. He soon was, however, caught by French colonial government and sentenced to penal servitude for life in French Guiana. In waiting to be transported to Guiana, he was jailed in Lao Bao Prison.
In 1936, due to activities of Popular Front, Cung was released from prison. He then continued participate in communist movement in Nha Trang and then in Nghe An. In early 1945, he was a co-founders of Viet Minh in Nghe-Tinh. When August Revolution broke out, Cung was the secretary of Viet Minh Front in Nghe-Tinh.
In 1946, Trần Văn Cung as a member of Viet Minh was elected to be member of National Assembly of Vietnam (NA). In late 1946, he was elected to be member of Standing Committee of NA.
In 1957, Cung was assigned to be Party Secretary of People’s University (predecessor of now National Economic University).
He died on 31 October 1977. He was awarded a Medal of Resistance (Huân chương Kháng chiến) by the State of Vietnam.
Trần Văn Cung’s father is Trần Văn Năng - a confucianist who was jailed by French colonial government for six months. A his elder brother is Trần Văn Tăng - a teacher and revolutionist and member of New Revolutionary Party of Vietnam who was also jailed by French and died in prison. His youngest brother is Trần Văn Quang who is a Colonel General (three-star general) of the People’s Army of Vietnam. Trần Văn Cung married Trần Thị Liên.
References
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- ^ Ban chấp hành Đảng bộ tỉnh Nghệ An (Excutive commitee of Nghệ An CPV) (2010). Nghệ An: Những tấm gương cộng sản, tập 3 (On prominent communists from Nghe An, Volume 3). National Political Publishing House. pp. 238–245.
- ^ "Hướng tới Lễ kỷ niệm 1000 năm Thăng Long-Hà Nội (1010-2010): "Những ngôi nhà lịch sử cách mạng" ở Hà Nội". Báo Xây dựng. 11 July 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- Institute of History. History of Vietnam, Volume VIII (period of 1919-1930). Publisher of Social Science. Hà Nội.
- "Thượng tướng Trần Văn Quang, những câu chuyện kể bên lề Ðại hội". Nhân Dân Newspaper. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.