Special Issue: Revisiting and Reconstructing the Nghê Tinh Soviets, 1930-2011

• Main Author: RETTIG, Tobias Frederik
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: colonial; French Indo-China; Military; Vietnam; Asian History; Asian Studies; Military History
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1086; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2342/viewcontent/Rettig2011SEARIntro.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2342/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Rettig_2011_Intro_Special_Issue_Nghe_Tinh_Soviets_SEAR.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The seven papers presented here constitute the first collective effort in a Western language to revisit the Nghe Tinh Soviets of 1930–31. The Nghe Tinh movement, its name a compound of two neighbouring provinces in the north-central part of the French protectorate of Annam, not only occupies a special place in the history of the early Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) but also became a site for animated debate on the causes of agrarian unrest that produced two of the most influential books in South East Asian Studies: James Scott’s Moral Economy of the Peasant (1976); and Samuel Popkin’s The Rational Peasant (1979).