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Article: Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution: 1885-1954.(Review)
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- Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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By Christopher E. Goscha. Richmond: Curzon, 1999, 418pp.
During Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia in the 1980s, ASEAN rallied behind the front-line state of Thailand, which feared Vietnamese tanks would roll down (and eventually become gridlocked in) the narrow streets of Bangkok. For Christopher Goscha, the irony is that the Vietnamese revolution was made manifest on the same streets of Thailand. Goscha presents a fascinating history of the Southeast Asian roots of the Vietnamese revolution, and strikes into fertile ground. While most works on the early days of the Vietnamese revolution focus on Ho Chi Minh's years in France and Moscow, where he was trained by the ...