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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a one-party state. A new state constitution was approved in April 2013, replacing the 1992 version. The central role of the Communist Party was reasserted in all organs of government, politics and society.
The Vietnamese Constitution or the Constitution of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Hiến pháp Việt Nam), fully the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Hiến pháp nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam), is the fundamental and supreme law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The current constitution was ...
Socialism in Vietnam, in particular Marxism–Leninism, is the ideological foundation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) for the development of the country ever since its establishment. [ 1 ] Socialism is one of three major political ideologies formed in the 19th century alongside liberalism and conservatism .
On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. [154] The war had devastated Vietnam and killed 966,000 to 3.8 million people. [155] [156] [157] A 1974 US Senate subcommittee estimated nearly 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians were killed or wounded between 1965 and 1974—including 415,000 killed.
The Vietnamese Council of Ministers (Hội đồng Bộ trưởng) was entrusted by the 1980 Constitution with managing and implementing the governmental activities of the state. [3] It is described in that document as "the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the highest executive state body of the highest body of state authority."
The preamble to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Constitution states that Vietnam only entered a transition stage between capitalism and socialism after the country was re-unified under the communist party in 1976 [22] and the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Cuba states that the role of the communist party is to "guide the common effort ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
In 2016, President Barack Obama became the 3rd U.S. Head of State to visit Vietnam. [35] His historic visit helped to normalize relations with Vietnam. This improvement of U.S-Vietnam relations was further increased by the lifting of a lethal arms embargo, allowing the Vietnamese government to buy lethal weapons and modernize its military.