Vietnam's tentative transformation

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Brown, Frederick Z ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1842431595     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1996.0059     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The other four are China, North Korea, Laos, and Cuba.
2. See David Marr, Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), for an exhaustive account of how Ho Chi Minh consolidated Communist power after the Second World War.
3. See Bui Diem, In the Jaws of History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985), for a powerful statement of the noncommunists' plight after 1954.
4. Marr, Vietnam 1945, 552.
5. Adam Schwartz, "Safety First," Far Eastern Economic Review, 11 July 1996. For an extended analysis of the VCP's organization, see Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), and Lewis M. Stern, Setting Socialism's Agenda: The Vietnamese Communist Party Central Committee from 1991 to 1996 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, forthcoming).
6. Adam Schwartz, "Safety First," Far Eastern Economic Review, 11 July 1996. For an extended analysis of the VCP's organization, see Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), and Lewis M. Stern, Setting Socialism's Agenda: The Vietnamese Communist Party Central Committee from 1991 to 1996 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, forthcoming).
7. Adam Schwartz, "Safety First," Far Eastern Economic Review, 11 July 1996. For an extended analysis of the VCP's organization, see Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), and Lewis M. Stern, Setting Socialism's Agenda: The Vietnamese Communist Party Central Committee from 1991 to 1996 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, forthcoming).
8. Porter, Vietnam, 100.
9. David Elliott, "Dilemmas of Reform in Vietnam," in William S. Turley and Mark Selden, eds., Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993).
10. See Mark Sidel, The United States and Vietnam: The Road Ahead (New York: Asia Society, 1996).
11. See David Marr, Vietnamese Anti-Colonialism, 1885-1925 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), ch. 10.
12. See Porter, Vietnam, ch. 6. Porter cites protests against living conditions and curricula by Saigon students in 1989 as an example of an "emerging form of unauthorized political participation." He notes that "the contrast between a southern population that is relatively unafraid to assert its political interests and northern and central Vietnamese populations that remain politically more timid is striking testimony to the divergence of social structures in the south from the longer-settled north and center" (p. 163).
13. William S. Turley, "Party, State, and People: Political Structure and Economic Prospects," in Turley and Selden, eds., Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism, 269.