ABSTRACT
The history of Vietnamese-USSR relations until well into the decisive 1960s was nominal and cursory. There was neither much intercourse nor emotional attachment for either party. The time of Nikita Khrushchev, witnessed the advent of a deeper and more complex association that left scars of distrust in Hano—scars that still have not disappeared. The history begins with the initial contact between the fledgling Indochinese Marxist movement and Moscow after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the start of the slow filtering of Marxist-Leninist thought into Indochina. Hanoi historians today trace Vietnamese communism's spiritual roots back to 1903 and the July 30 meeting of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party. Actually, there is no evidence that Marxist thought was at all influential among Vietnamese revolutionaries prior to the Bolshevik Revolution.
