Ho Chi Minh : the missing years, 1919-1941 / Sophie Quinn-Judge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn-Judge, Sophie.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hồ, Chí Minh, 1890-1969.

Hồ, Chí Minh.

Presidents--Vietnam (Democratic Republic)--Biography.

Presidents.

Vietnam (Democratic Republic).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Co. ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : [University of California Press], [2003]

Summary:

This book explores Ho's pre-power political career, from his emergence at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to his organisation of the Viet Minh united front at the start of the Second World War. Using previously untapped sources from Comintern and French intelligence archives, Sophie Quinn-Judge examines Ho's life in the light of two interconnecting themes -- the origins and institutional development of the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), and the impact on early Vietnamese communism of political developments in China and the Soviet Union. She makes the case that Ho's significance within the Comintern has been overstated by both leftist and anti-communist scholarship; she shows that there were other forces and personalities who played important roles in the formation of the ICP, especially when Ho's political fortunes were on the wane. Of special interest is her treatment of the impact on Vietnamese communism of the Guomindang and the Nanyang Committee of the CCP. She also highlights the importance of Ho's family and regional ties in his efforts to maintain his influence within the ICP. From the growing body of evidence now available, she creates the foundation for a historical portrait of Ho. This marks a clear departure from the myths of left and right which have in the past been substitutes for biography.

Contents:

1. Paris: The Emergence of Nguyen Ai Quoc (1919-23) 11

1919: the path to the Paris Peace Conference 11

The radical solution (1920-3) 28

2. The Comintern Recruit (1923-4) 43

First contacts in Moscow 43

The development of Comintern policy for colonial countries 46

Ho Chi Minh and his place in the Comintern 51

The Fifth Comintern Congress 55

The Comintern and the United Front in China 61

Ho's assignment to Canton 64

3. The Canton Period and its Aftermath (1924-8) 69

The first organizational steps 72

The Guangdong peasant movement 86

The growth of Thanh Nien 90

The collapse of the United Front 106

4. From the Old to the New Course (1927-9) 116

Ho Chi Minh's travels 116

The Sixth Comintern Congress 121

In Siam 126

The progress of Thanh Nien 130

The evolution of the Chinese Left 133

The Thanh Nien rift 142

5. The Revolutionary High Tide (1930-1) 150

The return of the Comintern trainees 150

The unification process 154

The New Year's uprisings 159

New assignments 161

The revolutionary upsurge in China and the Nanyang 165

The revolutionary wave in Vietnam 171

The October Plenum and Tran Phu's consolidation of power 177

The March Plenum and the end of the 'high tide' 183

6. Death in Hong Kong, Burial in Moscow? (1931-8) 191

The prisoner 191

In hiding/new political currents 195

Return to Moscow 200

The Seventh Comintern Congress 208

The United Front in Indochina 211

Ho Chi Minh's last years in Moscow 216

7. The Return of Ho Chi Minh and the Path to the Eighth Plenum (1937-41) 221

The political prelude to Ho Chi Minh's return (1937-8) 222

Ho Chi Minh's travels/the political landscape in 1939 228

The changing international situation 233

The Sixth Plenum and the 1940 uprisings 236

The move to the border and the Eighth Plenum 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-307) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1850656584

OCLC:

48783834