Lê Khả Phiêu

Lê Khả Phiêu (27 December 1931 – 7 August 2020) was a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001. Gainsborough 2010, p. 143 

Early life
Lê Khả Phiêu was in the Vietnam People's Army during the First and Second Indochina Wars, join in the Cambodian war, and was Head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army.The A to Z of Vietnam Bruce M. Lockhart, William J. Duiker – 2010 p205  Lê Khả Phiêu

Political career
Lê Khả Phiêu has previously been viewed as a conservative.Bolton 1999 However, this categorization has been challenged by historian Martin Gainsborough, who notes that Lê Khả Phiêu made some remarkably outspoken comments about problems in the party before the Tenth Party Congress. Lê Khả Phiêu criticized what he called 'illness of partyization' (bệnh đảng hoá), meaning that the Party controls everything.Gainsborough 2010, 137 Lê Khả Phiêu was a protégé of his predecessor, Đỗ Mười.Bolton 1999, 177 He was elevated to the Politburo in the early 1990s.Bolton 1999, p. 180

Death
Lê Khả Phiêu died on August 7, 2020 in Hanoi, at age 88.

References

Category:1931 births
Category:2020 deaths
Category:General Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam