Phạm Hồng Tung

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Abstract

The acticle deals with a crucial period in the history of the Vietnam Nationalist Party
(Việt Nam Quốc dân Đảng (VNQDD)) which has not yet studied carefully by Vietnamese and foreign historians. Like the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), the VNQDD experienced an organizational crisis after the abortive insurrection of 1930. In the following years both parties had to try in different ways to re-build their organization systems and strengthen their influence among the masses. This was a really hard challenge to both of them, which at the end, only the ICP could overcome. The failure of the VNQDD resulted to their final defeat, as they lost in the "quest for power" against the ICP in the August and the September 1945.
Based on some new documents the author of this acticle tries to re-examine some
important issues in the activities of the VNQDD from 1930 to 1939 and suggest new
interpretations for the failure of the party in its efforts to re-build its organization and
recover its political influence in the Vietnamese nationalist movement.