Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1945

Huynh Kim Khanh (Author)

9780801493973

Paperback / softback, published 4 August 1986

384 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg

This book represents an important turning point in the historiography of modern Vietnam, and it is assuredly the best book on the Communist party in a major Western language.... An outstanding analysis of the first phase of the longest revolutionary struggle in modern history.

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.