Ho Chi Minh : the missing years, 1919-1941/ Sophie Quinn-Judge.

1. Paris: The Emergence of Nguyen Ai Quoc (1919-23) -- 1919: the path to the Paris Peace Conference -- The radical solution (1920-3) -- 2. The Comintern Recruit (1923-4) -- First contacts in Moscow -- The development of Comintern policy for colonial countries -- Ho Chi Minh and his place in the Comintern -- The Fifth Comintern Congress -- The Comintern and the United Front in China -- Ho's assignment to Canton -- 3. The Canton Period and its Aftermath (1924-8) -- The first organizational steps -- The Guangdong peasant movement -- The growth of Thanh Nien -- The collapse of the United Front -- 4. From the Old to the New Course (1927-9) -- Ho Chi Minh's travels -- The Sixth Comintern Congress -- In Siam -- The progress of Thanh Nien -- The evolution of the Chinese Left -- The Thanh Nien rift -- 5. The Revolutionary High Tide (1930-1) -- The return of the Comintern trainees -- The unification process -- The New Year's uprisings -- New assignments -- The revolutionary upsurge in China and the Nanyang -- The revolutionary wave in Vietnam -- The October Plenum and Tran Phu's consolidation of power -- The March Plenum and the end of the 'high tide' -- 6. Death in Hong Kong, Burial in Moscow? (1931-8) -- The prisoner -- In hiding/new political currents -- Return to Moscow -- The Seventh Comintern Congress -- The United Front in Indochina -- Ho Chi Minh's last years in Moscow -- 7. The Return of Ho Chi Minh and the Path to the Eighth Plenum (1937-41) -- The political prelude to Ho Chi Minh's return (1937-8) -- Ho Chi Minh's travels/the political landscape in 1939 -- The changing international situation -- The Sixth Plenum and the 1940 uprisings -- The move to the border and the Eighth Plenum -- 8. Summing-up.