Abstract:
To study implicit political intention in memoirs written by formal leaders of the Vietnamese communist party who have migrated to China and France which published between 1975 and 1991.These memoirs responded to the attitude of the communist party after the war ended in April 1975 many of the views they presented were validated by the collapse of the communist world which followed. The memoirs present views towards the history of Vietnam which can be divided into 2 periods. 1. History of Vietnam after 1975: the writers described the situation with disappointment in the new society under communist rule. Consequently, this incident was described as a cruel and difficult time. Although the government policy affected the people, this incident was omitted in the historical narration of the Vietnamese communist party. 2. History of the Vietnam War prior to 1975: the writers related the discrepancies among various historical narratives of the Vietnam War. The memoirs indicated the missing details and events which are ignored in the state narrative of Vietnamese history such as the land reform in North Vietnam, the conflict among the Vietnamese communist leaders. In sum, these political memoirs of the migrated former communist leaders explain their own views of the Vietnamese history which differs from the mainstream Vietnamese history endorsed by the communist party.