Introduction / William S. Turley -- Communism and history in Vietnam / John K. Whitmore -- Vietnamese revolutionary doctrine in comparative perspective / William J. Duiker -- Vietnamese communism and the peasants : Analogy and originality in Vietnamese experience / Pierre Brocheux -- "Class-ism" in North Vietnam, 1953-56 / Edwin E. Moise -- Vietnamese communism and religious sectarianism / Jayne Werner -- Influences and idiosyncracies in the line and practice of the Vietnam Communist Party / Georges Boudarel -- Political participation and the Vietnamese Communist Party / William S. Turley -- Institutionalizing the revolution : Vietnam's search for a model of development / David W.P. Elliott -- Vietnam and the socialist camp : Center or periphery? / Gareth Porter