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Essay / Ideology of the Vietnamese Communists during the Vietnam War civil war between North and South Vietnam – the war is a power struggle between the two sides. Based on recently available documents and other primary sources, Vu asserts that "Vietnamese communists never wavered in their ideological loyalty during the period when key decisions regarding the civil war were made (1953-1960). Socialist ideology, rather than the simple desire for national unification, pushed the Vietnamese civil war from the north” (Vu 2009: 34-35). In the same vein, Zinoman in his next article, Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm and Vietnamese “reform communism”. in the 1950s: a revisionist interpretation, challenges a well-established view of the NVGP movement, a wave of domestic political protest that peaked in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1956 and which took its name from two inflammatory newspapers – Nhân Văn [humanity ] and Giai Phẩm [masterpieces]. He points out that foreign academics and local intellectuals interested in the NVGP affair succeed “in conveying a plausible image of the NVGP as a solid movement of political dissent against the party state” (Zinoman forthcoming 2011: 3). He argues that this was the origin of their narrow study of the most dramatic statements of opposition to the NVGP and their inability to analyze, in depth, the content of the writings published by the NVGP (Zinoman forthcoming in 2011, 4). Whether intentionally or not, Zinoman makes Boudarel's point. on the Hungarian uprising as an example of his claim we saw above. “Such selective reading can be misleading. » he writes: “To illustrate this point, consider “Lessons from Poland and Hungary”, an essay by the poet Lê Đạt presented on the first page of the fifth issue of Nhân Văn” (Zinoman forthcoming 2011: 4). Zinoman cites Lê Đạt's view in the article on Nhân Văn to assert that Lê Đạt approved of the murderous suppression of the Hungarian uprising and believed that "thanks to the help of the Soviet Red Army. The enthusiastic mutual assistance of brother countries towards Hungary is a stinging slap in the face for Eisenhower and his clique” (Zinoman forthcoming in 2011, 5, 6). Interestingly, Lê Đạt shared the same view as leaders of the Vietnamese Workers' Party (VWP), such as Lê Duẩn, who criticized those who failed to see imperialist plots (Vu 2009: 47-48). This is quite different from Boudarel's point of view in his Intellectual Dissidence in the 1950s: The Nhân Văn - Giai Phẩm Affair which says: "[W]hen the Hungarian uprising was crushed by Soviet intervention, the tone changed quickly..
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