Register of the Vietnamese subject collection

Finding aid prepared by Linda Bernard, Pruda L Lood.
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Title: Vietnamese subject collection
Date (inclusive): 1950-1990
Collection Number: XX839
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Vietnamese, English and German
Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (0.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Includes books, pamphlets, communist propaganda leaflets, letters by East German schoolchildren, a manuscript diary of a North Vietnamese air force Pilot, Nguyen Dang Quy, and other printed matter relating to various aspects of Vietnamese history, the Vietnam War, and government and politics in post-war Vietnam.

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Vietnamese Subject Collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam -- History
Vietnam -- Politics and government
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, North Vietnamese
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations
Vietnam (Democratic Republic)

 

SUBJECT FILE 1950-1990

Scope and Contents note

Tracts, pamphlets, leaflets and correspondence arranged by physical form.
 

Foreign relations

box 1

Hong Kong

box 1

United States

 

Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

box 1

Letters from East German school children addressed to Stanford University, opposing United States involvement in the Vietnam conflict, 1972

 

Propaganda

box 1

Leaflets

box 1

Songs

 

MEMORABILIA undated

Scope and Contents note

One imprinted tee-shirt.
box 1

One tee-shirt with "End the Embargo" imprint

box 2

Material not yet described

box 3

Material not yet described

box 4

Material not yet described

box 5, folder 1

Diary of a North Vietnamese Airforce Pilot 1961–1989

Scope and Contents

Manuscript diary of a North Vietnamese Airforce Pilot, Nguyen Dang Quy, from August 8, 1961 - September 2, 1989, with the majority of the content encompassing Nguyen's military service in the 1960s and '70s. The diary is written for the most part in original poetry, with some additional original prose compositions and a handful of copied work from published texts, such as "President Ho's Way of Life" and "10 Vows of the Vietnamese Red Army." Nguyen was a committed soldier for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, or Viet Cong, and his writing reflect both his belief in his cause and his desire to use his poetic gifts in service of "Uncle Ho." Despite his thoughts about his home village and a girl he left behind there, he is excited to enter into what he sees as a noble fight to reunite his country, as reflected in his early poems.