Sabaydii,
Below is the tentative outline of the Lao revolution series which will
be posted from the 12th of October to the beginning of December.
Laokao
p.s. The latter parts of the series will be expanded later.
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I. The introduction
1. Sources: the weight of the sources or their bias
2. The situation in Laos and outside including the
Communist camp and the Capitalist camp
3. What is the revolution? Is the revolution the wish
of our country?
II. The first Indochinese War
(1945-54)
1. The international arena (the
emergence of the Communist China in 1949, etc…)
2. The Vietnamese
situation (the French reoccupation of North Vietnam)
3. The Lao situation (the
gradual independence of Laos culminating in the signing of Independence
in the latter part of 1953)
4. The Vietnamese offensives into the Lao French territories of
1953
and Dien Bien Phu
III. Geneva Accords
1. What was the Geneva conference?
2. Who won? Who lost?
3. The role of the ICC
4. Why didn’t the neutrality have a chance?
IV. The first coalition of
1957
1. The role of the U.S., China, the Soviet Union, SEATO, the North
Vietnamese, the Pathet Lao (the establishment of the Lao revolutionary
party in 1955, the Neo Lao Hak Xat front), and the Royal Lao government
2. The general election of 1958
3. The right swing of the government (CDNI, the forced disbanding
of
the Pathet Lao troops, the jailing of the Pathet Lao leaders)
4. The arming of the Hmong under Vang Pao by the CIA
V. The significance of Kong
Le coup d’etat
1. The realignment of the Neutralists with the Leftists
2. The emergence of the Pathet Lao as a fighting force
VI. The second coalition of
1962
1. The role of the U.S., China, the Soviet Union, SEATO, the North
Vietnamese, the Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao government
2. The realignment of the Neutralists with the Rightists
3. The growing conflict in South Vietnam and the arrival of the
American troops in that country in 1965
VII. The bombing of the
Pathet Lao zone into the Stone Age
VIII. The third coalition of 1973
IX. The triumph of the revolution (what did it mean? The new regime
then and now)
X. The conclusion
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