07-13-2009, 09:44 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Huynh Kim Khanh, <b><i>Vietnamese Communism: 1925â1945</i>. </b>Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. 379 pp.
This excellent study shows how Ho Chi Minh, who was the most important single person in the founding of the Vietnamese Communist movement between 1925 and 1930, lost control of it in the early 1930's. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist, but the leaders who ran the Communist movement in the mid 1930's were much more concerned with Communism as an international movement than they were with Vietnamese nationalism. Ho regained control only around the beginning of World War II. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This excellent study shows how Ho Chi Minh, who was the most important single person in the founding of the Vietnamese Communist movement between 1925 and 1930, lost control of it in the early 1930's. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist, but the leaders who ran the Communist movement in the mid 1930's were much more concerned with Communism as an international movement than they were with Vietnamese nationalism. Ho regained control only around the beginning of World War II. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->