Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam

On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised by Ho Chi Minh, ¿avant-garde workers,¿ ¿exemplary soldiers,¿ and ¿new heroes¿ would fill the ranks of a ¿new model society,¿ one in which political virtue would serve as the principle to mobilized the masses. This study present and analyzes the process by which ¿new heroes¿ were invented.