Heritage: Doc Lap -- The Viet Minh legacy -- The Diem environment -- Development of the NLF -- The road to power : the struggle movement -- Organization building -- Communication of ideas -- The Communist role -- The course of the NLF -- The functional liberation associations -- Other NLF organizations -- The NLF command structure -- Violence -- Binh van : the proselyting program -- The liberated area : program -- The liberated area : administration -- Externalization : projecting the NLF image abroad -- Foreign relations -- NLF policy and goals -- Mystique.