a member of the Politburo Political Party Committee from 1951 to 1986. He was the Chairman of the National Assembly from 1960 to 1981. After President Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, Trường Chinh continued his work with Lê Duẩn and Phạm Văn Đồng. After Lê Duẩn died in 1986, he became the highest ranking in the Communist Party as the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He ended his career by initiating the successful economic renovation (Đổi Mới renovation) in 1986. He resigned as president in 1987 due to ill health, but continued to serve as advisor to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. He died on September 30, 1988 after falling down from the stairs, at the age of 81. His funeral was held at the Ba Đình Hall and he was buried at the Mai Dich Cemetery. Honours and awards : Gold Star Order : Order of Klement Gottwald (20 February 1982) : Order of Lenin (22 January 1982) Order of the October Revolution (6 February 1987) Honorary Citizen of Kyiv Works and publications 1938: The Peasant Question (Vấn đề dân cày) (Co-author with Võ Nguyên Giáp) 1943: Theses on Vietnam Culture (Đề cương văn hóa Việt Nam) 1946: The August Revolution (Cách mạng Tháng Tám) 1947: The Resistance Will Win (Kháng chiến nhất định thắng lợi) 1948: The Marxism and Vietnamese Culture (Chủ nghĩa Mác và vấn đề văn hóa Việt Nam) 1969: Forward Along The Path Charted By K. Marx References Sources Bradley, Mark Philip. Imaging Vietnam and America: The Making of Post Colonial Vietnam, 1919-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Elliot, David W. P. Changing Worlds: Vietnam's Transition from the Cold War to Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Ninh, Kim Ngoc Bao. World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1965. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Malarney, Shuan Kingsley. Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Marr, David G. Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945-1946). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Moise, Edwin E. Land Reform in China and North Vietnam: Consolidating the revolution at the village level. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Teodoru, Daniel E. “The Bloodbath Hypothesis: