Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy Toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963 Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Ilya V. Gaiduk
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Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict.
The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt detente. The Russians had high hopes that the Geneva accords would bring years of peace in the region. Gradually disillusioned, they tried to strengthen North Vietnam, but would not support unification of North and South. By the early 1960s, however, they felt obliged to counter the American embrace of an aggressively anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and the hostility of its former ally, the People's Republic of China. Finally, Moscow decided to disengage from Vietnam, disappointed that its efforts to avert an international crisis there had failed.
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Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict.
The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt detente. The Russians had high hopes that the Geneva accords would bring years of peace in the region. Gradually disillusioned, they tried to strengthen North Vietnam, but would not support unification of North and South. By the early 1960s, however, they felt obliged to counter the American embrace of an aggressively anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and the hostility of its former ally, the People's Republic of China. Finally, Moscow decided to disengage from Vietnam, disappointed that its efforts to avert an international crisis there had failed.
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- Title Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy Toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963
- Author Ilya V. Gaiduk
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date 2003-03-19
- ISBN 9780804747127 / 0804747121
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.38 x 1.01 in (23.06 x 16.21 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1953-1975, Indochina - Foreign relations - Soviet Union
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002155618
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.704
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