The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in Vietnam which was founded on 2 July 1976 as the merger of the Workers' Party of Vietnam and the People's Revolutionary Party. The CPV's existence dated back to the founding of the Indochinese Communist Party by Ho Chi Minh in 1930, and Ho Chi Minh played a major role in the creation of the party's ideology, one which fused communism with nationalism. Beginning in 1986, after the death of the orthodox Stalinist First Secretary Le Duan, the party adopted the "socialist-oriented market economy" system, permitting a multi-sectorial market economy in which the state directed economic development. Despite its expansion of economic freedoms, it remained the only party constitutionally allowed to govern the country, as Vietnam was officially a one-party Marxist-Leninist state.
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