Vietnam Under Communism, 1975-1982

Erscheinungsjahr 1985
ISBN: 978-0-8179-7852-5
Verlag: Hoover Institution Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Since the end of the Vietnam conflict, there have been many books on the United States' involvement in Vietnam. But they have focused on the United States, not Vietnam. Few authors have concentrated on Vietnam itself; even fewer have studied what has happened in South Vietnam since the communist take-over. Vietnam Under Communism is devoted to this neglected subject. Based on his own experiences, extensive use of primary and secondary sources, and interviews with Vietnamese refugees who lived under the new order, Nguyen Van Canh analyzes the contemporary political and administrative structure of Vietnam and its leaders, culture, education, economy, and foreign policy. Several chapters are devoted to the apparatus of repression - what the author calls Vietnam's bamboo gulag, the 're-education' camps that have swallowed up most of the leadership strata of South Vietnam. An important section details the fate of religious believers and churches since 1975.

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Nguyen Van Canh was born in 1936 in the province of Bac-ninh near Hanoi. He obtained a doctoral degree in pubic law from the University of Saigon in 1971 and was a professor of law and politics and deputy dean of the Faculty of Law at that university until the fall of South Vietnam.