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e is a version of “ArchiDOC,” an electronic archival descrip-
n the Indies. Among the scanned documents researchers
ular collection (opis) and examine the images of all of the
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“Repression and Opposition”
nsition to Democracy
9:00-10:15 a.m. Panel 6: Repression and Opposition
10.30–12.30 Panel 7: Critical Oral History Roundtable
2-5 p.m. Panel 8: The Year 1989 in the Balkans: The Tr
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
COLD WAR IN THE BALKANS:
HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES
18 - 20 M
AY 2000
ORGA IZERS
Cold War Research Group - Bulgaria
Cold War International History Project
(Bulgarian Association of Military History)
(Woodrow Wilson International Center)
Sofia
Washington D.C.
BULG
P R O G R A M
SPONSORS:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sofia; Ministry of Defense,
T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago; National Security
D.C.; Democracy Commission—US Embassy, Sofia; Bu
change (Fulbright), Sofia; Common Good Projects Fou
Sofia; Central State Archive, Sofia; TRANSIMPORT
Sofia; Municipality of Plovdiv; John D. and Catherine
Archive, George Washington University, Washington
garian-American Commission for Educational Ex-
ndation, Plovdiv; Euro-Partners 2000 Foundation,
18 May 2000
9:30-11:00 a.m. Panel 1: The Superpowers and the Balk
11.30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Panel 2: Balkan Diplomacy
3:00-5:00 p.m. Panel 3: The Balkans and the Cold War:
19 May 2000
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Panel 4: Intelligence Issues: A Cri
2–5:30 p.m. Panel 5: The Cold War in the Balkans: Eth
20 May 2000
ans in the Early Cold War Years
The Military Issues
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New Evidence on China, Southeast Asia and
the Vietnam War: Conference Report
By Priscilla Roberts
n 11-12 January 2000, the University of Hong
Kong and the Cold War International History
Project held the second in a planned series of
collaborative international meetings on the Cold War.1 A
first conference, organized by the Cold War International
History Project and the University of Hong Kong, on “The
Cold War in Asia” had been held in January 1996.1 Over
two dozen scholars from China, Vietnam, Russia, the United
States, Israel, and Europe gathered at the University of
Hong Kong to present and discuss their most recent
research findings on “China, Southeast Asia, and the
Vietnam War.” Within the University of Hong Kong, the
organizers were the Centre of Asian Studies, the Centre of
American Studies, and the Department of History.
Financial sponsorship was provided by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago); the Smith
Richardson Foundation (Westport, CT); and the Louis Cha
Fund for East-West Studies of the University of Hong
Kong.
An overriding theme of the conference was the
diversity which characterized the Communist camp during
the Vietnam war period, a marked break with the old
Western stereotype, so prominent during the war itself, of a
monolithic Communist bloc. In the final session, Chen Jian
(University of Virginia) commented specifically on the
degree to which intra-Communist bloc relations and
alliance dynamics thematically dominated the conference.
The conference was marked by papers, based on archival
evidence from Chinese, American, British, Russian, and
Central and East European archives which brought out the
existence of major divisions within the People’s Republic of
China and between Chinese Communist leaders and their
counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries. With
sometimes heated and passionate debates between
Chinese and Vietnamese scholars as to the merits of
various decisions on Vietnam, the discussion was highly
stimulating. Two leading Vietnamese scholars, Luu Doan
Huynh and Doan Van Thang, (Institute of International
Relations, Hanoi) who acted as commentators added a
genuine Vietnamese perspective to the discussions which
would otherwise have been lacking. The presence of
prominent Chinese scholars, one of whom was privy to
many Foreign Office deliberations during the later part of
the Vietnam War, also gave discussions an immediacy and
personal flavor.
A stimulating roundtable discussion of sources,
archives, and methodology, featuring European and
mainland Chinese scholars, some based in the People’s
Republic of China and some at U.S. academic institutions,
began the conference. Notable was the ingenuity with
which Chinese scholars, often still denied access to central
records, are utilizing provincial archives, railway
administration archives, and similar materials in the quest
to illuminate their own country’s past. The juxtaposition of
these sources with American, British, and Soviet-bloc
records, and Vietnamese oral histories, is enabling
historians to begin to reach a far richer and deeper under-
standing of the Vietnam war’s internal and international
dynamics and context, and of the often conflicting pres-
sures that ideology and the pursuit of individual countries’
perceived national interests exerted.
The initial session, “The Path to Confrontation,”
focused largely upon what is sometimes called “The First
Indochina War” from 1945 to 1954. Ilya Gaiduk (Institute of
World History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow) and
Tao Wenzhao (Institute of American Studies, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing [CASS]) focused on
their countries’ respective policies at the 1954 Geneva
conference. Both brought out the degree to which Ho Chi
Minh ‘s two major Communist patrons pressured him to
accept a solution partitioning Vietnam and to leave
Cambodia and Laos under separate, non-communist
governments. Charles Cogan (Harvard University)
concentrated on the growing United States identification
with the government of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1956. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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