Beschreibung:
Breaking with nationalist and colonial historiographies, which have largely locked Vietnam into Indochinese or nation-state straightjackets, Goscha takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between 1885 and 1954.
Figures, Maps, Acknowledgements, A Note on Terms, Abbreviations, Introduction, The Birth of Vietnamese Anticolonial Bases in Asia (1885-1925), 2 The Regional Networks of Vietnamese Communism (1925-1939), 3 Thai Break (1940-45), 4 Building Indochinese Links to Thailand (1945-46), 5 The Southeast Asian Commercial Networks of the D RV (1946-51), 6 The DRV's Non-Communist Vision of Southeast Asia (1945-48), 7 Reviving the ICP's Southeast Asian Revolutionary Networks (1948-50), 8 The Cold War and the Closing of the Western Front (1950-54), Conclusion, Biographical Sketches of Major Figures, References, Index