ABSTRACT
The revolutionary leadership in the villages of My Tho that emerged during and after the Concerted Uprising was very different from the leadership of the Resistance period. During the Resistance, the Party organization had stayed in the background, letting the Viet Minh Front run local administration in the villages and in some cases allowing non Party villagers to play important roles. The problem of village disdain toward and resentment of Ba Nhu in particular and women in politics in general was particularly acute in Long Trung, since at that time the Party did not have a formal organization in the village and the only Party member was a woman. The Long Trung story is not only a talc of a generational changing of the guard; it is also an illustration of one of the main themes of this study the progressive narrowing of the class base of the revolution.
