Vietnam and the Soviet Union: Anatomy of an Alliance
Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Apocryphal Story -- Introduction: Soviet Overview of Asia -- 1 The Formative Years: Pretense and Reality -- Earliest Years -- Ho in Moscow -- The Comintem Relationship -- The Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) -- Notes -- 2 The Stalin Years: Cruel World of Indifference -- The Popular Front -- World War II and Its Aftermath -- The Viet Minh War -- Notes -- 3 The Khrushchev Years: Opportunity Versus Caution -- Geneva, 1954 -- Disengagement -- Notes -- 4 Zigzag: The Sino-Soviet Dispute -- Mediation Efforts -- Exploitation Formula -- Ideological Intrusion -- The Dispute and the War -- The Dispute Today -- Notes -- 5 Hanoi and Moscow at War -- Turnaround -- The Year 1965 -- Differing Objectives, Contending Strategies -- Big-Unit War Years (1966-1973) -- Political Settlement -- The End of the War -- Summing Up -- Notes -- 6 Soviet-Vietnamese Economic Relations -- The Viet Minh War -- Early Economic Aid -- Military Assistance -- Postwar Economic Relations -- Comecon -- Trade Relations -- Long-term Plans -- APPENDIX: USSR FOREIGN AID PROJECT LIST -- Electric Production -- Mining -- Oil and Gas -- Manufacturing and Industrial Projects -- Other Industrial Projects -- Transportation and Communication -- Agriculture -- Education and Technical Assistance -- Notes -- 7 The Subliminal Dimension -- Culture and Logic -- Status and Power -- Doc Lap and Mat Nuoc -- Oil and Water -- Notes -- 8 Post−Vietnam War Relations -- Postwar Years -- The Treaty -- Economic Tutelage -- Military Alliance -- The Sino-Vietnamese War -- The Kampuchean War -- The Diplomatic Front -- The Ambience Today -- Notes -- 9 The Evolving Relationship -- The "All-Around" Relationship -- Internal Issues: Dependence Versus Influence.