The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945

Informationen zum Autor Stein Tonnesson is a Research Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He is the author of several scholarly articles and books, including 1946: Outbreak of the Indochina War (l Harmattan, 1987). Klappentext This definitive and thorough exploration of the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945 provides new insights from hitherto unexploited archival sources. The strength of the book lies in encompassing the history of the Vietnamese Revolution in discussions of broader theoretical issues and in placing it within the context of international developments at the time. Two causal chains are established, one starting with the founding of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930, the other with President Roosevelt's intense preoccupation from 1943 to 1945 with the future of French Indochina. Zusammenfassung Considers the antecedents and conduct of the Vietnamese revolution. Based upon hypothesis! it assumes that the fall of the French colonial regime and its subsitution by a Vietnamese Democratic Republic was a result of Roosevelt's IndoChina policy and the founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Placid Haven A Nation-in-Waiting The Viet Minh Colliding Plans Deception and False Expectations End of an Order A Shadow A Nation-State Founded in Famine Two Theatres of War Two Strategies of Insurrection August Conclusions

Klappentext
This definitive and thorough exploration of the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945 provides new insights from hitherto unexploited archival sources. The strength of the book lies in encompassing the history of the Vietnamese Revolution in discussions of broader theoretical issues and in placing it within the context of international developments at the time. Two causal chains are established, one starting with the founding of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930, the other with President Roosevelt's intense preoccupation from 1943 to 1945 with the future of French Indochina.

Zusammenfassung
Considers the antecedents and conduct of the Vietnamese revolution. Based upon hypothesis, it assumes that the fall of the French colonial regime and its subsitution by a Vietnamese Democratic Republic was a result of Roosevelt's IndoChina policy and the founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

Inhalt
Introduction
A Placid Haven
A Nation-in-Waiting
The Viet Minh
Colliding Plans
Deception and False Expectations
End of an Order
A Shadow
A Nation-State Founded in Famine
Two Theatres of War
Two Strategies of Insurrection
August
Conclusions

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