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Vietnam's Lost Revolution - Ngo Dinh Diem's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955-1963 (Hardcover)
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Vietnam's Lost Revolution - Ngo Dinh Diem's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955-1963 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
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Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material
from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special
Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and
in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A
cornerstone of Ngo Dinh Diem's presidency, Civic Action was
intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent,
noncommunist Southeast Asian nation. Geoffrey Stewart juxtaposes
Diem's revolutionary plan with the conflicting and competing
visions of Vietnam's postcolonial future held by other indigenous
groups. He shows how the government failed to gain legitimacy
within the peasantry, ceding the advantage to the communist-led
opposition and paving the way for the American military
intervention in the mid-1960s. This book provides a richer and more
nuanced analysis of the origins of the Vietnam War in which
internal struggles over national identity, self-determination, and
even modernity itself are central.
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