North Vietnamese Political and Diplomatic History Leading to the Tet Offensive

Vietnamese intellectual and political history from 1945 to 1965, focusing on internal debates about national identity and the socialist state. The dataset is based on the book 'A World Transformed' by Kim N. B. Ninh, which uses Vietnamese-language materials and archival data. It examines the period from the communist ascent to power to the escalation of American involvement.

Use Cases

• Analyze intellectual debates on national identity and modernity based on the description of critical intellectual works.
• Study the formation of a socialist state's ideology based on the described focus on state-building from 1945-1965.
• Examine Vietnamese perspectives on the Cold War era based on the description's focus on internal Vietnamese culture rather than external actions.

Strengths

• Based on a scholarly monograph that incorporates Vietnamese-language materials and previously unavailable archival data.
• Covers a defined 20-year period (1945-1965) of significant political transformation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect the temporal and source bias inherent to the specific historical analysis presented in the source book.

Provenance

Source

Kim N. B. Ninh, The Asia Foundation

Collection Method

Scholarly historical research incorporating archival data, literary, and historical sources.

Time Range

1945 to 1965

Geography

North Vietnam