ABSTRACT
The result of the Vietnamese War was the creation of the opportunities for a number of upper middle peasants and the rich peasants to become a rural bourgeoisie, which, in turn, changed the rural lifestyle in a number of the ways and thus altered the traditional way of thinking of the peasants in some ways. During the war the revolutionaries had tried to insulate the areas under their control from both the market forces emanating from the Saigon zones and the cornucopia of goods avidly sought by the rural farmer's fertilizer, pesticides, and the humble but revolutionary small motorized water pumps that changed the face of rural agriculture. Though the war undermined many of the revolutionary's accomplishments, these achievements were still quite remarkable. During the succession of the generations, however, the original character of the revolutionary movement also underwent the significant transformation.
