Vietnam of the 2020s: At the Peak of Success and Thinking of the Future

This is a review of the collection of articles, published by the RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, after the transactions of the conference timed to the 75th anniversary of the August Revolution in Vietnam. The authors are Russian and Vietnamese researchers, specialists in various academic disciplines, attempt to make a comprehensive analysis of Vietnam’s history since the mid-20th century to the present. Significant attention is paid to changes taking place in the economy, social sphere and relationships with the world outside.The review analyses and compares positions of historians, political scientists and economists on both sides, who have addressed these relevant subjects.

revolution in Vietnam, results of the Renovation course, socialism with a Vietnamese face, peripheral capitalism, multivectoral foreign policy, balancing between major powers