Abstract
The paper analyse internal debates in the DRV leadership that culminated during the controversial 9th plenum of the Lao Dong Party. The following campaign against "revisionism" is presented as a decisive step of the Le Duan-faction to marginalize dissident Party members and to prepare for the escalation of the military struggle in South Vietnam. The paper also discusses the way the “anti-revisionist” campaign affected relations with East Germany. The paper relies on so far untapped sources like reports of the former GDR embassy in Hanoi, of East German journalists based in North Vietnam and files from the Archives of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi).
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