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Sophie Quinn-Judge
Ho Chi Minh
The Missing Years
$45.00, hardcover
978-0-520-23533-5
Available Now
368 pages, 5 x 8-1/2 inches, 10 b/w photographs, 3 maps
July 2003, Only available in Only available in the United States, Canada, Philippines
Categories: Autobiographies & Biographies; Asian History; Southeast Asia
July 2003, Only available in Only available in the United States, Canada, Philippines
Categories: Autobiographies & Biographies; Asian History; Southeast Asia
"[A] Scrupulous, scholarly, original, and sympathetic portrait by Dr. Quinn-Judge."—Jonathan Mirsky, Times Literary Supplement (tls)
"A thoroughly researched and elegantly written account of what is arguably the most important topic in modern Vietnamese political history. [Quinn-Judge's] sources allow her to sketch a vivid, nuanced portrait of Ho Chi Minh and to unravel the complex interplay of domestic and international forces that shaped the historical emergence and development of Vietnamese Communism."—Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley
This book explores Ho's pre-power political career, from his emergence at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to his organization 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, and the impact on early Vietnamese communism of political developments in China and the Soviet Union.