Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences of growing up during the Vietnamese War.

The book gives a unique perspective on the conflict through the prism of adult-youth relations.

By studying these relations, including educational systems, social organisations, and texts created by and for children during the war, Olga Dror analyses how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures.

She examines the socialisation and politicisation of Vietnamese children and teenagers, contrasting the North's highly centralised agenda of indoctrination with the South, which had no such policy, and explores the results of these varied approaches.