In 1925, Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) formed the Revolutionary Youth League (Viet Nam Thanh Nien Cach Menh Dong Chi Hoi) as an organization that would begin the process of concentrating the Vietnamese people on the goal of overthrowing the colonial government of the French. Within the Youth League, Ho formed an inner communist group, the Communist Youth League (Thanh Nien Cong San Doan), which served to introduce communist theory to the Vietnamese independence movement, mainly through the secretly distributed journal Thanh Nien. In February 1930 the Revolutionary Youth League became Vietnam's communist party after the founding conference of the first Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), held in 1929 in Hanoi. In 1941, the Revolutionary Youth League, the ICP, factions of the Vietnam Nationalist Party, and the New Vietnam Party were formed into a united front organization called the Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi, the League for the Independence of Vietnam, better known more by its more common name, the Viet Minh.
Further Reading
Buttinger, Joseph. (1968) Vietnam: A Political History. New York: Praeger.
Cima, Ronald J., ed. (1989) Vietnam: A Country Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Duiker, William J. (2000) Ho Chi Minh. New York: Hyperion.
———. (1976) The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Marr, David (1971) Vietnamese Anti-Colonialism, 1885–1925. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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