Article: 'It's time for the Indochinese Revolution to show its true colours': the radical turn of Vietnamese politics in 1948.

Introduction

Cold War historians have neglected the significance of 1948 as a key turning point in Indochina. They have instead focused on 1950, the year when the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) successfully secured support from China and the Soviet bloc and when the French and the US-led anti-communist camp concluded an agreement with Vietnamese Emperor Bao Dai and established the State of Vietnam as an alternative to the communist-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Based on recently released internal party documents, Vietnamese newspapers, and memoirs and interviews of non-communist ministers in the DRV government during 1945-50, I hope to show the ...

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