“Ho is not, and never was, a revolutionary who fitted any Western stereotype. He seized upon Lenin as a practical means of fighting colonialism – but his communist “internationalism” was always qualified by Vietnamese nationalism. He never committed himself 100 per cent to Moscow or to Pek...
country to independence and unification; but at the same time‚ a tyrant who‚ to achieve his goal‚ blindly followed the communism to massacre thousands of innocent people in the cruel land reform‚ dragging millions of his people to the deadly prolong war under the name of nationalism....
became famous under the name Thanh Nien. Almost all of its members had beenexiledfrom Indochina because of their political beliefs and had gathered together in order to participate in the struggle against French rule over their country. Thus, Canton became the first home of Indochinesenationalism...
Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina (Stanford, 1994) andSacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam (McGraw-Hill, 1995). In recent years he has developed a strong interest in world history and with colleague Jackson Spielvogel published a textbook entitledWorld History...
This was the position of Nguyen Ai Quoc in 1919, a man later known as Ho Chi Minh, who would go on to lead the cause for Vietnamese independence. This lesson explores the development of Vietnamese nationalism and how the international community impacted Vietnam during the early to mid-twe...
This autoethnographic account of a "socialist youth" explores how state power influences and shapes youth's concept of nationalism. Embracing the teaching of Ho Chi Minh's philosophy and Marxism-Leninism, Vietnam's school programs and activities in the 1980s were designed to evoke patriotism and ...
(Eds. note: Of course, this kind of claim would infuriate Khmers in Cambodia, and is reminiscent of theborschbattles between Russia and The Ukraine, or thefish head curry firestorm currently blazing, on the Malay peninsula. Food is a tinderbox, the last bastion of nationalism! Khmers have ...
41In these purges, an estimated 14,00038Elisabeth Becker,When the War Was over: The Voices of Cambodia’s Revolution and ItsPeople(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986); Ben Kiernan,How Pol Pot Came to Power:Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975(London: Verso, 1985)...
because if he were not Orthodox he would be a Croat, and that’s the last thing he wants to be. Similarly a Croatian atheist is a Catholic atheist, because if he were not Catholic he would be a Serb, and that’s the last thing he wants to be. For more on this seeNationalism, vi...
country to independence and unification; but at the same time‚ a tyrant who‚ to achieve his goal‚ blindly followed the communism to massacre thousands of innocent people in the cruel land reform‚ dragging millions of his people to the deadly prolong war under the name of nationalism....