Table Of ContentVietnam’s Communist Revolution
By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over
eighty 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 saw not only successes in
defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and
development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real Vietnam Tragedy.
Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its after-
math, this book examines its leaders’ early rise to power, the tumult of
three decades of war with France, the United States, and China, and
the dismal legacies left behind, which still infl uence Vietnam’s foreign
policy today.
Tuong Vu is Director of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science
at the University of Oregon. A native of Vietnam, he has published
extensively on Vietnamese politics and history, Cold War history, and
East Asian politics. Vu served on the editorial board of the J ournal
of Vietnamese Studies during 2006– 2014. His fi rst book, Paths to
Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia ,
received a 2011 Bernard Schwartz Award Honorable Mention.
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Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
Edited by
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, C olumbia University
Lien- Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University
This series showcases cutting-e dge scholarship in US foreign relations that employs
dynamic new methodological approaches and archives from the colonial era to the
present. The series is guided by the ethos of transnationalism, focusing on the history
of American foreign relations in a global context rather than privileging the United
States as the dominant actor on the world stage.
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Vietnam’s Communist Revolution
The Power and Limits of Ideology
TUONG VU
University of Oregon
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Vietnam’s Communist Revolution
By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over
eighty 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 saw not only successes in
defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and
development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real Vietnam Tragedy.
Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its after-
math, this book examines its leaders’ early rise to power, the tumult of
three decades of war with France, the United States, and China, and
the dismal legacies left behind, which still infl uence Vietnam’s foreign
policy today.
Tuong Vu is Director of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science
at the University of Oregon. A native of Vietnam, he has published
extensively on Vietnamese politics and history, Cold War history, and
East Asian politics. Vu served on the editorial board of the J ournal
of Vietnamese Studies during 2006– 2014. His fi rst book, Paths to
Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia ,
received a 2011 Bernard Schwartz Award Honorable Mention.
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Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
Edited by
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, C olumbia University
Lien- Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University
This series showcases cutting-e dge scholarship in US foreign relations that employs
dynamic new methodological approaches and archives from the colonial era to the
present. The series is guided by the ethos of transnationalism, focusing on the history
of American foreign relations in a global context rather than privileging the United
States as the dominant actor on the world stage.
Also in the Series
Michael Neagle , A merica’s Forgotten Colony: Cuba’s Isle of Pines
Elisabeth L eake , T he Defi ant Border: The Afghan-P akistan Borderlands in the Era of
Decolonization, 1936–1 965
Renata K eller , M exico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the
Mexican Revolution
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