A report on Lao People's Revolutionary Party

The LPRP has a monopoly on state power in the country.

Founding and sole ruling party of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

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Laos

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Socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.

Socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.

Pha That Luang in Vientiane is the national symbol of Laos.
Fa Ngum, founder of the Lan Xang Kingdom
Local Lao soldiers in the French Colonial guard, c. 1900
French General Salan and Prince Sisavang Vatthana in Luang Prabang, 4 May 1953
Ruins of Muang Khoun, former capital of Xiangkhouang province, destroyed by the American bombing of Laos in the late 1960s
Pathet Lao soldiers in Vientiane, 1972
Mekong River flowing through Luang Prabang
Paddy fields in Laos
Laos map of Köppen climate classification.
Flag of the ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ASEAN heads of state in New Delhi on 25 January 2018
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2016
Hmong girls in Laos, 1973
A proportional representation of Laos exports, 2019
GDP per capita development in Laos
Near the sanctuary on the main upper level of Vat Phou, looking back towards the Mekong River
Rivers are an important means of transport in Laos.
Pha That Luang in Vientiane. The Buddhist stupa that is a national symbol of Laos.
Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane.
National University of Laos in Vientiane.
An example of Lao cuisine
Lao women wearing sinhs
Lao dancers during the New Year celebration
New Laos National Stadium in Vientiane.
Wat Nong Sikhounmuang - buddhist pagoda in Luang Prabang.

A post-independence civil war began, which saw the communist resistance, supported by the Soviet Union, fight against the monarchy that later came under influence of military regimes supported by the United States.

Flag of the Pathet Lao

Pathet Lao

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Communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.

Communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.

Flag of the Pathet Lao
Pathet Lao at Xam Neua in 1953
Pathet Lao soldiers in Vientiane, Laos, 1973

The political movement of the Pathet Lao was called first the "Lao People's Party" (1955–1972) and later the "Lao People's Revolutionary Party" (1972–present).

Prime Minister of Laos

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Head of government of Laos.

Head of government of Laos.

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<center>Bounnhang Vorachith {{small|served 2001–2006}} born 1937 (age {{age|1937|8|15}})</center>
<center>Thongsing Thammavong {{small|served 2010–2016}} born 1944 (age {{age|1944|4|12}})</center>
<center>Thongloun Sisoulith {{small|served 2016–2021}} born 1945 (age {{age|1945|11|10}})</center>
<center>Bouasone Bouphavanh {{small|served 2006–2010}} born 1954 (age {{age|1954|6|3}})</center>

The prime minister is accountable to the president, the National Assembly and the country's only legal party: the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP).

Kaysone Phomvihane in 1978

Kaysone Phomvihane

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Kaysone Phomvihane in 1978
Materials used by Kaysone Phomvihane in an oath-taking ceremony in 1948
Kaysone Phomvihane Museum
Kaysone Phomvihane on the new 2000 kip

Kaysone Phomvihane (ໄກສອນ ພົມວິຫານ; 13 December 1920 – 21 November 1992) was the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992.

General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party

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General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is the office of the highest-ranking member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and also typically the supreme leader of Laos.

Siphandone in 2004

Khamtai Siphandone

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Siphandone in 2004

General Khamtai Siphandone (ຄຳໄຕ ສີພັນດອນ; born 8 February 1924) is a Laotian politician who was Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 24 November 1992 to 21 March 2006 and President of Laos from 24 February 1998 to 8 June 2006, when he was replaced by Choummaly Sayasone.

Nouhak Phoumsavanh

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Nouhak Phoumsavanh or Phoumsavan (ໜູຮັກ ພູມສະຫວັນ; หนูฮัก พูมสะหวัน; 9 April 1910 – 9 September 2008) was a longtime Pathet Lao revolutionary and communist party official who was the 3rd President of Laos from 1992 to 1998.

Leon Trotsky exhorting Red Army soldiers in the Polish–Soviet War

Marxism–Leninism

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Communist ideology which was the main communist movement throughout the 20th century.

Communist ideology which was the main communist movement throughout the 20th century.

Leon Trotsky exhorting Red Army soldiers in the Polish–Soviet War
Mao Zedong with Anna Louise Strong, the American journalist who reported and explained the Chinese Communist Revolution to the West
Enver Hoxha, who led the Sino-Albanian split in the 1970s and whose anti-revisionist followers led to the development of Hoxhaism
Vladimir Lenin, who led the Bolshevik faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Tsar Nicholas II addressing the two chambers of the Duma at the Winter Palace after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution which exiled Lenin from Imperial Russia to Switzerland
Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish Marxist who supported Lenin's revolutionary defeatism
From 4 to 15 January 1919, the Spartacist uprising in the Weimar Republic featured urban warfare between the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and anti-communists, secretly aided by the Imperial German government led by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Béla Kun, leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, speaks to supporters during the 1919 Hungarian Revolution
At his death on 21 January 1924, Lenin's political testament ordered the removal of Stalin as General Secretary because of his abusive personality
A 1929 metallurgical combine in Magnitogorsk demonstrates the Soviet Union's rapid industrialisation in the 1920s and 1930s
A Chinese Communist Party cadre-leader addresses survivors of the 1934–1935 Long March
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin established the post-war order of the world with geopolitical spheres of influence under their hegemony at the Yalta Conference
Josip Broz Tito's rejection in 1948 of Soviet hegemony upon the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia provoked Stalin to expel the Yugoslav leader and Yugoslavia from the Eastern Bloc
The Chinese Communist Revolution (1946–1949) concluded when Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949
The Sino–Soviet split facilitated Russian and Chinese rapprochement with the United States and expanded East–West geopolitics into a tri-polar Cold War that allowed Premier Nikita Khrushchev to meet with President John F. Kennedy in June 1961
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (leader of the Republic of Cuba from 1959 until 2008) led the Cuban Revolution to victory in 1959
Daniel Ortega led the Sandinista National Liberation Front to victory in the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1990
Guerrillas of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War
In Apartheid South Africa, a trilingual sign in English, Afrikaans and Zulu enforces the segregation of a Natal beach as exclusively "for the sole use of members of the white race group." The Afrikaner Nationalist Party cited anti-communism as a reason for the treatment of the black and coloured populations of South Africa.
Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, who sought to end the Cold War between the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and the United States-led NATO and its other Western allies, in a meeting with President Ronald Reagan
Logo of the Pan-European Picnic, a peace demonstration in 1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
Map of current and former Communist states, most of which followed, as party or state–party ideology, or were inspired by Marxist–Leninist ideology and development:
1933 Soviet propaganda encouraging peasants and farmers to strengthen working discipline in collective farms in the Azeri Soviet Socialist Republic
A 1920 Bolshevik pro-education propaganda which reads the following: "In order to have more, it is necessary to produce more. In order to produce more, it is necessary to know more."
In establishing state atheism in the Soviet Union, Stalin ordered in 1931 the razing of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow

Today, Marxism–Leninism is the ideology of several communist parties, despite the de-Leninization that occurred after the dissolution of the USSR, and remains the official ideology of the ruling parties of China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam as one-party socialist republics, and of Nepal in a multiparty democracy.

Communist Party of Vietnam

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Founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Party emblem sometimes seen on certificates of merit given out by the CPV's internal organizations
The flag of the CPV and the national flag of Vietnam flying side by side
General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng with United States Secretary of State John Kerry in Hanoi, 2013
The state and party are guided by Hồ Chí Minh Thought.
Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in 2014
The Communist Party's poster commemorating the 80th founding and equating the party with "peace, prosperity and happiness"
Party's propaganda poster in Huế

The Khmer People's Revolutionary Party was established in April 1951 and the Lao People's Party was formed four years later on 22 March 1955.

Souphanouvong c. 1974

Souphanouvong

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Along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the "Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (pro-Vietnam), neutralist and royalist political factions in Laos.

Along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the "Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (pro-Vietnam), neutralist and royalist political factions in Laos.

Souphanouvong c. 1974

Nicknamed "The Red Prince", he became part of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.