Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years Book

	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Place-names
	Introduction	1
1	Paris: The Emergence of Nguyen Ai Quoc (1919-23)	11
	1919: the path to the Paris Peace Conference	11
	The radical solution (1920-3)	28
2	The Comintern Recruit (1923-4)	43
	First contacts in Moscow	43
	The development of Comintern policy for colonial countries	46
	Ho Chi Minh and his place in the Comintern	51
	The Fifth Comintern Congress	55
	The Comintern and the United Front in China	61
	Ho's assignment to Canton	64
3	The Canton Period and its Aftermath (1924-8)	69
	The first organizational steps	72
	The Guangdong peasant movement	86
	The growth of Thanh Nien	90
	The collapse of the United Front	106
4	From the Old to the New Course (1927-9)	116
	Ho Chi Minh's travels	116
	The Sixth Comintern Congress	121
	In Siam	126
	The progress of Thanh Nien	130
	The evolution of the Chinese Left	133
	The Thanh Nien rift	142
5	The Revolutionary High Tide (1930-1)	150
	The return of the Comintern trainees	150
	The unification process	154
	The New Year's uprisings	159
	New assignments	161
	The revolutionary upsurge in China and the Nanyang	165
	The revolutionary wave in Vietnam	171
	The October Plenum and Tran Phu's consolidation of power	177
	The March Plenum and the end of the 'high tide'	183
6	Death in Hong Kong, Burial in Moscow? (1931-8)	191
	The prisoner	191
	In hiding/new political currents	195
	Return to Moscow	200
	The Seventh Comintern Congress	208
	The United Front in Indochina	211
	Ho Chi Minh's last years in Moscow	216
7	The Return of Ho Chi Minh and the Path to the Eighth Plenum (1937-41)	221
	The political prelude to Ho Chi Minh's return (1937-8)	222
	Ho Chi Minh's travels/the political landscape in 1939	228
	The changing international situation	233
	The Sixth Plenum and the 1940 uprisings	236
	The move to the border and the Eighth Plenum	246
8	Summing-up	252
	Notes	259
	Bibliography	298
	Biographical Appendix	308
	Index	347