Vietnam's Communist Revolution
Vietnam's Communist Revolution

Author: Tuong Vu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 1316875954

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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.

The Vietnam War Reexamined
The Vietnam War Reexamined

Author: Michael G. Kort

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1108547982

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Going beyond the dominant orthodox narrative to incorporate insight from revisionist scholarship on the Vietnam War, Michael G. Kort presents the case that the United States should have been able to win the war, and at a much lower cost than it suffered in defeat. Presenting a study that is both historiographic and a narrative history, Kort analyzes important factors such as the strong nationalist credentials and leadership qualities of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem; the flawed military strategy of 'graduated response' developed by Robert McNamara; and the real reasons South Vietnam collapsed in the face of a massive North Vietnamese invasion in 1975. Kort shows how the US commitment to defend South Vietnam was not a strategic error but a policy consistent with US security interests during the Cold War, and that there were potentially viable strategic approaches to the war that might have saved South Vietnam.

Contested Territory
Contested Territory

Author: Christian C. Lentz

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0300245580

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The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests.

Revolution, Socialism and Nationalism in Viet Nam
Revolution, Socialism and Nationalism in Viet Nam

Author: Ken Post

Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781855210974

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This final volume completes the history and analysis of the Vietnamese Revolution by bringing it up to final Communist victory in 1975. Although it deals with the relevant developments in the North, it basically concentrates on the struggle in the South following the massive US intervention in 1965. Unlike other analyses, it focuses primarily on the Vietnamese protagonists, the Communists and the Republic of Viet Nam, examining above all the questions of why the former were able to win and whether the latter could ever have been a viable regime.