>Russians on the red river: The Soviet impact on Hanoi's townscape, 1955–90∗
>Russians on the red river: The Soviet impact on Hanoi's townscape, 1955–90∗
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>红河上的俄罗斯人:苏联对河内市容的影响,1955-90*
DOI:
10.1080/09668139508412266
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
W. Logan
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作者:
W. Logan
Atownscape CAN BE READ like any text and can be similarly deconstructed and reconstructed. An analysis of a city's town plan, the architecture of its buildings, the types of statues and street furniture provide an entree into a broader discussion of the political, economic, social and cultural processes operating in this piece of space as well as a discussion of the functions of culture itself (culture as politics, culture as resistance). This article summarises the story of Soviet bloc influence on Hanoi, Vietnam's capital on the Red River, from 1955 to 1990—the second period of European domination in Hanoi's history. Underlying the article is the argument that Vietnamese cultural and, hence, national survival has been achieved by'bending with the wind', adopting many of the features of the invaders' cultures while managing, at the same time, to preserve key elements of their own culture, especially language and legend. One result of this process is that, today, Vietnam's cities are characteristically multilayered, each layer the legacy of a period of political and cultural domination by an external power. Hanoi's environment is strewn with political icons, each regime producing buildings, streetscapes and whole districts to demonstrate its ideology, and, by so doing, also to demonstrate its mastery of the city and its people. The establishment of a socialist regime in the North—the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)—in 1954 was soon followed by the formalisation of a framework of economic aid from the Soviet Union in the Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement of 18 May 1955. This paved the way for Soviet assistance in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of North Vietnam1 and was followed, on 12 March 1958, by a Trade and Maritime Agreement which specified the system of exchange to be used in Soviet-Vietnamese trade. 2 During the 1960s and early 1970s economic assistance was cut back but re-emerged after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) embracing North and South. The Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed on 3 November 1978 was to become the most important of the compacts establishing economic assistance relations between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. It made the SRV a fully fledged member of the Soviet bloc with consequent membership of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), the International Bank for Economic Cooperation and