| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (172 pages)) |
| Series |
Studies on Southeast Asia series ; no. 65 |
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Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 65.
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| Contents |
Introduction / K.W. Taylor -- A Vietnamese perspective on US involvement in Vietnam / Bui Diem -- Testimony of a senior officer, South Vietnamese Central Intelligence Organization / Phan Cong Tam -- From facing anti-war crowds to nation-building / Nguyen Ngoc Bich -- A decade of public service : nation-building during the interregnum and Second Republic (1964-75) / Tran Quang Minh -- Building a market economy during wartime / Nguyen Duc Cuong -- From the First to the Second Republic : from Scylla to Charybdis / Phan Quang Tue -- Testimony of a former representative of the Republic of South Vietnam National Assembly, 1971-75 / Tran Van Son -- The Tan Dai Viet Party and its contribution to building democracy in the Second Republic of Vietnam / Ma Xai -- Naval battle of the Paracels / Ho van Ky-Thoai -- Military and security / Lan Lu |
| Summary |
The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (1955-75) during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was achieved during the last eight years. The essays in Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) come from those who strove to build a constitutional structure of representative government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state. Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories known |
| Notes |
"The essays in this volume emerged from a symposium held at Cornell University in June 2012"--Page 7 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, Vietnamese
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Employees
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Vietnam (Republic) -- Officials and employees
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Vietnam (Republic) -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Vietnam (Republic)
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Vietnam.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Vietnam-oorlog.
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taylor, Keith Weller, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780877272250 |
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0877272255 |
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1501725955 |
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9781501725951 |
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