Vietnam's communist revolution : the power and limits of ideology / Tuong Vu.
By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnames...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
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| Summary: | By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications, this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left behind which remain in Vietnam today. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Feb 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781316650417 1316650413 9781107154025 1107154022 9781316607909 1316607909 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781316650417 |