Continuity and Motivation in the Vietnamese Revolution
New Light from the 1930's
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2897793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milton Osborne (American University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2755894 |
| OpenAlex | W2328798237 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THROUGHOUT THE LONG AGONY of the Vietnam War few issues have been so bitterly debated as the legitimacy of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The question has often been argued in terms of nationalism and the Vietnamese Communists' right to be regarded as advocates and practitioners of that concept.1 At other times, the issue of legitimacy has been approached in terms of chronological judgment: at what point, it has been asked, did the Communists emerge as the most active and capable political grouping in Vietnam?2 As a matter for emotion-charged political discussion the question of legitimacy is not subject to easy resolution through academic argument. Scholars, no less than others, hold political opinions and inject these into their debates, often appearing to be unaware of what they are doing.3 Whatever the problems of bias and emotion associated with any discussion of legitimacy, a notable feature of recent research into the nature of Vietnamese anti-colonial, and subsequently revolutionary action has been the extent to which scholarship has revealed a remarkable continuity of purpose. From the earliest days of the French colonial presence in Vietnam there was sustained, if irregular resistance to the alien power.4 Arguments persist as to the terminology that should be used to describe this nineteenth
Linguistics · Sociology · Vietnamese · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2003 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |