A report on Laos and Lao People's Revolutionary Party
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
- Lao People's Revolutionary PartyA 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.
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Prime Minister of Laos
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The Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, formerly the chairman of the Council of Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is the head of government of Laos.
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
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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.
He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic from 1975 to 1991 and then as the second President from 1991 to 1992.
Pathet Lao
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The Pathet Lao (ປະເທດລາວ ), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.
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).
General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
1 linksGeneral 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.
Kingdom of Laos
1 linksLandlocked country in Southeast Asia at the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula.
Landlocked country in Southeast Asia at the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula.
The country was governed as a constitutional monarchy that ruled Laos beginning with its independence on 9 November 1953.
Kaysone Phomvihane acted as Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
Marxism–Leninism
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Communist ideology which was the main communist movement throughout the 20th century.
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.
In the other four existing Marxist–Leninist socialist states, namely China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam, the ruling parties hold Marxism–Leninism as their official ideology, although they give it different interpretations in terms of practical policy.
Indochinese Communist Party
0 linksPolitical party which was transformed from the old Vietnamese Communist Party (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng sản Đảng) in October 1930.
Political party which was transformed from the old Vietnamese Communist Party (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng sản Đảng) in October 1930.
However, the Comintern argued that the communist movement should be promoted in the whole of French Indochina (including Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) rather than only in Vietnam, therefore it urged the Vietnamese Communist Party to transform itself into the Indochinese Communist Party.
Four years later, Laotian members of the party founded the Lao People's Party.