1st Edition

Vietnamese Communism In Comparative Perspective

By William S Turley Copyright 1981
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on how the Vietnam Communist party adapted to its environment in order to achieve and exercise power and to what degree these adaptations made the Vietnamese revolution distinctive.

    1. Introduction 2. Communism and History in Vietnam 3. Vietnamese Revolutionary Doctrine in Comparative Perspective 4. Vietnamese Communism and the Peasants: Analogy and Originality in Vietnamese Experience 5. "Class-Ism" in North Vietnam, 1953–1956 6. Vietnamese Communism and Religious Sectarianism 7. Influences and Idiosyncracies in the Line and Practice of the Vietnam Communist Party 8. Political Participation and the Vietnamese Communist Party 9. Institutionalizing the Revolution: Vietnam's Search for a Model of Development 10. Vietnam and the Socialist Camp: Center or Periphery?

    Biography

    William S Turley