Douglas Pike is director of the Indochina Studies Project at the University of California, Berkeley. As a U.S. foreign service officer, he was posted in Saigon, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, and Washington. He is the author of five books on Vietnam, the latest of which is PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam.

• Preface -- Apocryphal Story -- Introduction -- The Formative Years -- The Stalin Years -- The Khrushchev Years -- Zigzag -- Hanoi and Moscow at War -- Soviet-Vietnamese Economic Relations -- The Subliminal Dimension -- Post-Vietnam War Relations -- The Evolving Relationship

Douglas Pike is director of the Indochina Studies Project at the University of California, Berkeley. As a U.S. foreign service officer, he was posted in Saigon, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, and Washington. He is the author of five books on Vietnam, the latest of which is PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam.

• Preface -- Apocryphal Story -- Introduction -- The Formative Years -- The Stalin Years -- The Khrushchev Years -- Zigzag -- Hanoi and Moscow at War -- Soviet-Vietnamese Economic Relations -- The Subliminal Dimension -- Post-Vietnam War Relations -- The Evolving Relationship

Douglas Pike is director of the Indochina Studies Project at the University of California, Berkeley. As a U.S. foreign service officer, he was posted in Saigon, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, and Washington. He is the author of five books on Vietnam, the latest of which is PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam.

• Preface -- Apocryphal Story -- Introduction -- The Formative Years -- The Stalin Years -- The Khrushchev Years -- Zigzag -- Hanoi and Moscow at War -- Soviet-Vietnamese Economic Relations -- The Subliminal Dimension -- Post-Vietnam War Relations -- The Evolving Relationship