Confronting Vietnam : Soviet policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963 / Ilya V. Gaiduk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaĭduk, I. V. (Ilʹi︠a︡ V.), 1961-2011.

Series:

Cold War International History Project series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Soviet Union.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

International relations.

Indochina--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Indochina.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Indochina.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1953-1975.

Physical Description:

xxi, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press [distributor], [2003]

Summary:

Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict.

Contents:

The origins

To divide or not to divide

Making peace at Geneva

From support to cooperation

Neither peace nor war

If the fractured friendship collapses

Crisis in Laos

Back to Geneva

A disposition to war.

Notes:

"Paperback edition in 2000"-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-219) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804747121

OCLC:

51222194