POL SCI 140L Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Power Vacuum, August Revolution, Mass Mobilization
6 Mar 2018
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Seizure of state power more or less by itself. Not externally supported by strong patrons like in china. One of the 4 places where communism stayed in power after the cold war. No real sign of weakening or imminent collapse. French colonial conquest delegitimizes the old confucian order of imperial bureaucracy and classic chinese education system. Marxism-leninism appears to address 2 big problems of colonialism. French businessmen were the ones getting rich, with a couple locals getting some benefits. Form of apartheid : power in the hands of a few white colonialists who are favored by the legal system. Cult of personality, cosmopolitanism (celebrating for knowing the larger world), depicted as a gentle soul ( uncle ho ) Travels the world 1911-41 (starts off with a job on a steamship) Helps found the french communist party in paris in 1920. 1941: returns to vietnam, founds the viet minh. He lived and survived the purge in moscow.
