Ho Chi Minh

[RebeldePorLaPAZ]

anybody have any good links to sites about Ho Chi Minh or can somebody share thoughts about him. i finnished reading a lot about Mao and my friend suggested Ho Chi Minh so i need a place to start.


gracia :)

[RebeldePorLaPAZ]

opps i put this under history when it should be under web site but anyways i do need a bit of history of Ho Chi Minh and how vietnam was before his time. in other words background on vietnam


gracia

[Comrade Ceausescu]

read a book called "ho chi minh a life" by william j dukier.btw whatd you think of comrade mao?anyway,heres a link to on amazon to the book i mentioned earler.hope that helps.Click Here,this book also is good vietnam history! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078688701X/qid=1063839686/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/002-3559077-2103264?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

[Jesus Christ]

here are some great books ive read:
Ho Chi Minh: A Life by William J. Duiker
Ho Chi Minh: Selected Writings by Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years Sophie Quinn-Judge

and if u got any questions, id like to say im the one to ask

[RebeldePorLaPAZ]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2003, 07:02 PM
read a book called "ho chi minh a life" by william j dukier.btw whatd you think of comrade mao?anyway,heres a link to on amazon to the book i mentioned earler.hope that helps.Click Here,this book also is good vietnam history! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078688701X/qid=1063839686/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/002-3559077-2103264?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
i liked reading about mao cause now i accually know who he is what he did and all that. i accually look foward in reading more and what i found interesting was his childhood. he was a very determined as a kid and worked really hard and long on things he felt were important and there is a lot more i liked about mao but anyways thanks for the links ya.

[Comrade Ceausescu]

yea mao was a great man.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

I pulled these up from earlier posts of mine in History on Ho. The longer bio piece is now being posted for the third time. Juju, I am sorry if you have already read this and needed some new info. If you have not read this, then enjoy.

Originally posted on August 7, 2003:
Ho Chi Minh will go down in history as one of the greatest anti-imperialists who ever lived. Under his leadership, Vietnam freed itself from outside domination. Vietnam was a colony of the Chinese, French, Japanese, French again, and the U.S. took a shot at it after 1954. The revolutionary movement fostered by Ho has kept Vietnam free from direct imperialism for over 25 years, an exceptional achievement considering Vietnam's history and its relative lack of power compared to China, Japan, and the West.

Sadly, he never lived to see an independant and unified Vietnam.

Originally posted on July 15, 2003:
I did research on Ho Chi Minh for a project in high school. He became interested in removing the French rather early... if I remember correctly there was an anti-French voice in his family.

Ho left Vietnam for the first time by joining the crew of a luxury ocean liner, I believe (I remember he was a cook). There, he saw the way the rich passengers lived... what they ate... saw what shit he had to feed to the proletarian crew... related how the rich on the liner lived to the way people in Vietnam lived.

The double standard of living bothered him then and there. He had a certain romantic vision of the United States. He was inspired by the liberal Jeffersonian calls for equality in the Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal" and all that...

He came to the US briefly as a young man... To New York, and I believe Boston, maybe a third Northeastern city... and his romanticism of the United States was badly damaged. He saw segregation firsthand... saw how America treated its African-American population...

He was not totally disillusioned with the US just yet, though. He approached President Wilson at Versailles in 1919 (when the US and Europe were drawing up the peace treaty to end World War I) and asked him to support Vietnamese independence. Actually, I think he wanted to meet Wilson, but Wilson would not. Wilson was a racist and an imperialist who would have gave less than a damn whether Vietnam ever got away from France.

Soon after, he went to the USSR. I cannot remember whether this was before or after Stalin came to power... he took his dream of Vietnamese liberation and found a receptive audience. The aid from the USSR seems to have hardened his leftist tendencies and made him an all-out communist... of course, he would also take Chinese aid after the Maoist revolution there...

I hope this is of some help...