What is Trường Chinh?
{{Infobox President |honorific_prefix = His Excellency | name = Trường Chinh | image = TruongChinh1955.jpg | caption = Trường Chinh in 1955 | nationality = [[Vietnam]]ese | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|2|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Xuân Trường District]], [[Nam Định Province]], [[Indochina]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|9|30|1907|2|9|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Hanoi]], [[Vietnam|Socialist Republic of Vietnam]] | office = [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam]] | term_start = 14 July 1986 | term_end = 18 December 1986 | predecessor = [[Lê Duẩn]] | successor = [[Nguyễn Văn Linh]] | term_start1 = 9 November 1940 | term_end1 = 5 October 1956 | predecessor1 = [[Nguyễn Văn Cừ]] | successor1 = [[Ho Chi Minh]] | office2 = [[Secretary of the Central Military Commission|Secretary]] of the [[Central Military Commission (Vietnam)|Central Military–Party Committee]] of the [[Communist Party of Vietnam|Communist Party]] | term_start2 = 14 July 1986 | term_end2 = 18 December 1986 | predecessor2 = [[Văn Tiến Dũng]] | successor2 = [[Nguyễn Văn Linh]] | office3 = 2nd [[List of Presidents of Vietnam|Chairman of the Council of State of Vietnam]] | term_start3 = 4 July 1981 | term_end3 = 18 June 1987 | predecessor3 = [[Tôn Đức Thắng]] | successor3 = [[Võ Chí Công]] | office4 = [[Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam|Chairman of the National Assembly]] | term_start4 = 15 July 1960 | term_end4 = 4 July 1981 | predecessor4 = [[Tôn Đức Thắng]] | successor4 = [[Nguyễn Hữu Thọ]] | office5 = Member of the [[Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam|Politburo]] | term_start5 = 1951 | term_end5 = 1986 | party = [[Communist Party of Vietnam]] (1930–1987) }} '''Trường Chinh''' ({{IPA-vi|ʈɨ̂əŋ ciŋ̟|lang}}; 9 February 1907, [[Xuân Trường District]], [[Nam Định Province]] – 30 September 1988, [[Hanoi]]) was a Vietnamese [[communism|communist]] political leader and theoretician. He was one of the key figures of Vietnamese politics.<ref>Stein Tonesson, ''Vietnam 1946: How did the War Began'' (Berkeley: Univer