Vietnam: Trials and Tribulations of a Nation

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Vietnam has stirred more interest internationally among scholars and statesmen, journalists and common readers than most other countries in the post World War II era. This is a study of the Vietnamese nationalist movement in the long historical context of Sino-Vietnamese cultural and colonial relationship as well as of the more recent experience under the French. The author argues that the nationalist struggle is a continual theme in Vietnamese history and that it was nationalism rather than communism that triumphed in 1975 when Vietnam came totally under communist control. A quarter of the book deals with Vietnam in the post-1975 period: the problems of social and econimic reconstruction, administrative reorganisation, occupation of Kampuchea and subordination of Laos, relationship with China and the Soviet Union, ASEAN and the United States. It also speculates on Hanoi's future role as the third centre of world communism.

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D.R. SARDESAI is Professor of History and Chairman, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. He is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London and of the Heras Society, Bombay. He is also the President of the Asiatic Society of Bombay.