Indochinese Communist Party’s Leaflets and its popular organizations in Hanoi and some Northern areas during the period 1939-1945

Abstract

Right after its establishment, the Communist Party of Vietnam began building revolutionary forces and uniting peoples through flexible forms of revolutionary propaganda suitable to historical circumstances, such as newspapers, leaflets, and propaganda speeches..., Among those, revolutionary leaflets were a sharp weapon and an effective tool for the revolutionary propaganda work of the Party. They made an important contribution to the victories of the Vietnamese revolution in the period 1939-1945. Examining original documents at the Archives Department of the Party Central Committee Office, National Archives Center I, II, National Museum of History and several related materials, this paper focuses on revolutionary leaflets of the Indochina Communist Party between 1939 and 1945 including Party policies, their formats and contents, counter-propaganda measures of the colonial government and the role of these leaflets in the national liberation movement.