Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution

by Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Book Overview

In the early years of the Vietnamese Revolution--the 1920s and 1930s--radicalism was the dominant force in anticolonial politics. The subsequent displacement of radicalism by communism, however, has obscured radicalism's role as a nonideological reaction to both colonial rule and native accommodation to that rule. Hue-Tam Ho Tai seeks to redress the influence of radicalism on this crucial point in Vietnamese history. She reveals a vibrant and explosive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674746139
• ISBN13: 9780674746138
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"