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The Communist Road To Power In Vietnam: Second Edition (Nations of the Modern World : Asia) [2 ed.]
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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
2 The Rise of the Revolutionary Movement (1900-1930)
Vietnamese Nationalism
Ho Chi Minh and the Origins of Vietnamese Marxism
The Formation of the Revolutionary Youth League
The Road to Revolution
The League and Vietnamese Nationalism
The Breakup of the League
The Nghe Tinh Soviets
Nghe Tinh in Retrospect
3 Out of the Ashes (1930-1941)
Under the Banner of the Comintern
Clouds of War
4 Prelude to Revolt (1941-1945)
War in Europe
The Bac Son Rebellion
The Cochin China Uprising
The Formation of the Vietminh
Toward the General Uprising
March to the South
The Japanese Coup d'État
Creatine the Liberated Zone
The Tan Trao Conference
5 The Days of August (August-September 1945)
The August Revolution
The Lessons of August
6 The Uneasy Peace (September 1945-December 1946)
The Vietminh in Power
The Collapse of Communist Power in Cochin China
Negotiations with the French
7 The Franco-Vietminh War (1947-1954)
The Chinese Model
Withdrawal
Equilibrium
The Bao Dai Solution
The Communist Victory in China
The 1950 Border Offensive
Toward the General Offensive
The Other War
The Navarre Plan
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Road to Geneva
Conclusions
8 Peace and Division (1954-1961)
Communist Strategy in the South, 1954-1957
The International Situation
The Darkest Hour
The Year of Decision, 1959
The Period of Spontaneous Uprisings
The Third Party Congress, 1960
The National Liberation Front
9 The Dialectics of Escalation (1961-1965)
Countering the "Special War,"
Building up the PLAF
Fish on the Chopping Block
The Fall of the Diem Regime
The Ninth Plenum of December 1963
Confrontation with Moscow
The Battlefield Solution
Crisis in Saigon
The Fall of Khrushchev
Conclusion
10 War of Attrition (1965-1968)
Westmoreland's Strategy
Hanoi's Response
The Strategy of Attrition: Washington
The Strategy of Attrition: Hanoi
On the Diplomatic Front
Shootout at the DMZ
The Strains of Escalation
Toward the Decisive Hour
The Tet Offensive
The Results of Tet
11 Fighting and Negotiating (1968-1973)
The Battle of Khe Sanh
Maintaining the Offensive
Prelude to Negotiations
The Invasion of Cambodia
Bit by Bit
The Easter Offensive
Peace Is at Hand
Conclusions
12 The Final Drama (1973-1975)
Testing the Wind
Attack in the North
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign
The Divine Hammer
Dénouement
13 Prospect and Retrospect
Factors in Communist Success
Vietnam as Model
The Perils of Success
Foreign Policy
Reforming the Revolution
A Final Word
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Book and Author
Index

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THE COMMUNIST ROAD TO POWER IN VIETNAM

SECOND EDITION

The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam WILLIAM

J.

DUIKER

The Pennsylvania State University

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