Nguyễn Thị Năm and the Land Reform in North Vietnam, 1953

2015/01/01 by Alex-Thai D. Vo · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Communism #Consolidation (business) #Democracy #Democratic consolidation #Democratization #Economic history #Economics #History #Ho chi minh #Land reform #Land tenure #Law #Political science #Politics #Power (physics) #Scholarship #Socioeconomics #Sociology #Vietnamese #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1525/vs.2015.10.1.1

openalex publication_date 2015/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

New scholarship has challenged conventional portrayals of the Vietnamese revolution and its leader, Hồ Chí Minh. However, little has been said about Hồ Chí Minh’s role in the social-political and economic revolution known as the land reform. This paper looks at the life and trial of landowner Nguyễn Thị Năm to illuminate Hồ Chí Minh’s role in the decision to execute Nguyễn Thị Năm. It also examines the execution as part of the broader history of the land reform and of the consolidation of communist power in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

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• In the Service of World Revolution: Vietnamese Communists’ Radical Ambitions through the Three Indochina Wars
• Mass killings under communist states [wikipedia]
• North Vietnam [wikipedia]

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