Ho Chi Minh, founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor, the Viet-Minh (1941), and president of North Vietnam (1945–69). Ho led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades and was a key figure in the post-World Wa
Ho Chi Minh Lessons Ho Chi Minh's Rise to Power Lesson Transcript Instructors Brian Simmons View bio Adam Richards View bio Learn about the communist-nationalist leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, and the Viet Minh. Also discover the differences between the Viet Minh vs. the Viet Cong.Updated...
To many observers, the crux of the debate over Ho Chi Minh has centered on the issue of whether he should be identified as a Communist or a nationalist. Many of his foreign acquaintances insist that Ho was more a patriot than a Marxist revolutionary. Ho appeared to confirm this view in ...
In 1924, Quoc travelled to China and worked with the fledgling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), lecturing on revolutionary tactics at the Huangpo Military Academy. During Quoc’s three years in China he married Zeng Xueming, a local woman 15 years his junior. When the Chinese nationalist governme...
Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist in the sense that he had a special affection for Vietnam's people and favored Vietnamese unification and independence, but, from his reading of Lenin’s Theses onward, he firmly adhered to the Leninist principle that Communist nations should subordinate their inter...
Who Was Ho Chi-Minh? Ho Chi-Minh was the founder and first leader of Vietnam’s nationalist movement. Starting at an early age at the dawn of the 20th century, Ho became a strident voice for an independent Vietnam. He was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution and joined the Communist Par...
Dwight Eisenhower. As he wrote later: "I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held at the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh."...
A liberation zone was established near the border with China, from which the Viet Minh worked to muster the discontent of urban nationalists and the rural poor into a unified movement for the liberation of Vietnam. While in southern China (1942) to meet with Chinese Communist Party officials,...
Under communist control, Ho Chi Minh City lost its administrative functions, andstrenuousefforts were made to reduce its population and dependence upon foreign imports and to nationalize its commercial enterprises. While many business firms closed or were disrupted after 1975, new ventures began, with...
Straddling both a colonial and communist past, Ho Chi Minh has a rich history that ranges from wartime brutality to peaceful artist culture. The city used to be called Saigon and plenty of people continue to call it that. There are so many beautiful monuments left over from the period when...