Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When UNITA was formed in 1966 it was vilified as a divisive splinter group. But it did propose a new strategy to the armed struggle. Rather than concentrate the efforts of the movement in building an elaborate propaganda network on the outside, it would concentrate the limited resources of the...
But is there any freedom in Cambodia? Ieng Sary was not joking last summer when he described Cambodia as a "giant workshop." After a devastating war in which a tenth of the population died and another tenth was wounded, the government seeks rapid reconstruction and industrialization. These policies do have...
THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES resulting from forced urbanization and rural devastation form the major obstacles to reconstruction. The PRG's attempt to persuade peasants to return to their farmsteads immediately after the end of the Thieu regime failed, as refugees from the central provinces found it easier to stay on in...
But the PRG has not found reconstruction easy. In the first months after liberation, South Vietnam experienced a severe rice shortage, as the last violent months of the war disrupted planting in most of the central provinces. By the time Thieu's government fell, almost 2 per cent of the...
Despite its progress in rebuilding the economy, the problems facing the Vietnamese go far beyond reconstruction. Vietnam will eventually have to build unified programs for development, programs that will embody their socialist aspirations. The real question for the Vietnamese is whether they can modernize without sacrificing the democratic participation that...