Vietnam's Lost Revolution
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Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Ngô ?ình Di?m's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963

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Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Ngô ?ình Di?m's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963

About this book

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 Ngô ?ình Di?m'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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. Illustrations
  9. Maps
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction
  12. One A Temporary Expedient
  13. Two Nationalism and Welfare Improvement in the Republic of Vietnam
  14. Three Revolution, Community Development and the Construction of Diệm’s Vietnam
  15. Four “Bettering the People’s Conditions of Existence”
  16. Five Civic Action and Insurgency
  17. Six The Strategic Hamlet Program and Civic Action in Retreat
  18. Conclusion
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index