| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2 | The History Cooperative

Sophie Quinn-Judge. Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years 1919–1941. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 356. $39.95.
Ho Chi Minh stands behind only V. I. Lenin and Mao Zedong among revolutionary leaders of the twentieth century, yet he has received a mere fraction of the biographical attention devoted to them, not to mention second-echelon revolutionaries like Sun Yat-Sen, Leon Trotsky, Sukarno, Josip Broz Tito, or Fidel Castro. It does not help that Ho led a clandestine existence for thirty years, longer than any of the others, thus rendering the biographer's quest much more difficult.	1
But not impossible. To fathom Ho's covert decades, Sophie Quinn-Judge has mined the Comintern archives in Moscow, the French colonial archives in Aix-en-Provence, and scores of official histories and memoirs published in Hanoi. From such disparate venues, she often is able to cross-check evidence about specific episodes, individuals, or political assertions. The resulting book substantially enhances our understanding of what Ho was doing in France, the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Siam, and Singapore between 1919 and 1941.	. . .

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