War by other means : national liberation and revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60

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War by other means : national liberation and revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60

Carlyle A. Thayer

Allen & Unwin, c1989

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780043701874

Description

In December 1960 a group of Vietnamese revolutionaries met in a hamlet near the Cambodian border. They proclaimed the formation of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. The Second Indo-China War began. It ended with the expulsion of the USA and its allies, the destruction of non-communist Vietnamese nationalism and the unification of Vietnam. This study is the first to place the creation of the NFLSV in its full historical context. It reveals how this organization was able to achieve nothing less than the revolutionary transformation of an agrarian Third World economy. Thayer's account is set within the the wider international context of the Cold War years and the emerging Sino-Soviet dispute, and has been meticulously reconstructed from captured Communist Party internal documents, clandestine radio broadcasts, and interviews with many government officials, intelligence analysts and defectors from the communist movement itself. "Carlyle A. Thayer is an acknowledged international authority on Vietnam, who, after serving in Vietnam as a volunteer with the International Voluntary Services, devoted over two decades of study to this subject, including three field-research trips. He teaches at the Australian Defence Force Academy.".

Table of Contents

  • Regroupment and reorientation, July 1954--March 1955
  • Political struggle under the Geneva Agreements, March--August 1955
  • The Fatherhood Front and renewed political struggle, September 1955--April 1956
  • Political struggle reaffirmed, May--September 1956
  • Policy revision, October--December 1956
  • Domestic policies of the Diem regime, January 1957--December 1958
  • Maintaining and developing the struggle in the south, 1957--1958
  • Consolidating the north and winning the sympathy and support of the world's peoples, 1957--58
  • Founding the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, 1958--59
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ISBN 9780048200457

Description

This study sets out to place the creation of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFLSV) in its full historical context. It reveals how this organization was able to achieve nothing less than the revolutionary transformation of an agrarian Third World economy. In December 1960 a group of Vietnamese revolutionaries met in a hamlet near the Cambodian border. They proclaimed the formation of the NFLSV. The Second Indochinese War began. It ended with the expulsion of the US and its allies, the destruction of non-communist Vietnamese nationalism and the unification of Vietnam. Thayer's account is set within the the wider international context of the Cold War years and the emerging Sino-Soviet dispute, and has been meticulously reconstructed from captured Communist Party internal documents, clandestine radio broadcasts, and interviews with many government officials, intelligence analysts and defectors from the communist movement itself. Carlyle A. Thayer is an acknowledged international authority on Vietnam who, after serving in Vietnam as a volunteer with the International Voluntary Services, devoted over two decades of study to this subject, including three field-research trips. He teaches at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Table of Contents

  • Regroupment and reorientation, July 1954-March 1955
  • political struggle under the Geneva Agreements, March-August 1955
  • the Fatherhood Front and renewed political struggle, September 1955-April 1956
  • political struggle reaffirmed, May-September 1956
  • policy revision, October-December 1956
  • domestic policies of the Diem regime, January 1957-December 1958
  • maintaining and developing the struggle in the south, 1957-1958
  • consolidating the north and winning the sympathy and support of the world's peoples, 1957-58
  • founding the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, 1958-59. (part contents)

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