Author: Kim Khánh Huỳnh Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801493973 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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From a cell of nine men in 1925, the Vietnamese Communists grew by December 1976 into a massive party with over 1.5 million members and the organizational and military capabilities to defeat the United States. What factors account for the outstanding success of the Indochinese Communist Party? In this book, Huynh Kim Khánh traces the Vietnamese Communist movement from its inception as a radical youth group founded by Ho Chi Minh (then Nguyen Ai Quoc) to its half-planned, half-accidental victory in 1945.
Author: William S Turley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000011127 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 294
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This book focuses on how the Vietnam Communist party adapted to its environment in order to achieve and exercise power and to what degree these adaptations made the Vietnamese revolution distinctive.
Author: Liang Fook Lye Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814327948 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 346
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Some fledging democracies in the world have encountered setbacks due to political parties trying to grapple with the expectations of sophisticated electorates and introducing gradual political reforms over the years.This book describes how democracy is evolving in East Asia and how it assumes different forms in different countries, with political parties adapting and evolving alongside. It has a two-fold intent. First, it contends that the existing variety of party systems in East Asia will endure and may even flourish, rather than converge as liberal democracies. Second, it highlights the seeming political durability of one party systems ? unlike two-part or multi-party systems in the US and Europe ? and their enduring predominance in countries such as Cambodia, China, Singapore and Vietnam.
Author: Tuong Vu Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316875954 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 571
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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.
Author: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150173640X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 168
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Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape. So argues Benedict Kerkvliet in his analysis of Communist Party–ruled Vietnam. Speaking Out in Vietnam assesses the rise and diversity of these public displays of disagreement, showing that it has morphed from family whispers to large-scale use of electronic media. In discussing how such criticism has become widespread over the last three decades, Kerkvliet focuses on four clusters of critics: factory workers demanding better wages and living standards; villagers demonstrating and petitioning against corruption and land confiscations; citizens opposing China's encroachment into Vietnam and criticizing China-Vietnam relations; and dissidents objecting to the party-state regime and pressing for democratization. He finds that public political criticism ranges from lambasting corrupt authorities to condemning repression of bloggers to protesting about working conditions. Speaking Out in Vietnam shows that although we may think that the party-state represses public criticism, in fact Vietnamese authorities often tolerate and respond positively to such public and open protests.
Author: Lewis M. Stern Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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As the Vietnamese Communist Party prepared for the 8th party congress in 1996, predictions were that reform issues (e.g., privatization of land and the move to a market economy) would be fully aired and that a strategic course for the future would be set. In the end, however, the congress came to reflect the more cautious style of VNCP General Secretary Do Muoi, restating the party's core values and rejecting more radical changes. Based on party documents, party resolutions and decrees, Vietnamese-language newspaper accounts and the views of senior party and government officials, diplomats and scholars, this work closely examines the Muoi years as they led up to the 8th congress, the congress itself, and its impact on future Vietnamese policy.
Author: Carlyle A. Thayer Publisher: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences ISBN: Category : Vietnam Languages : en Pages : 34
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