The Russian Journal of Vietnamese StudiesThe Russian Journal of Vietnamese StudiesВьетнамские исследования2618-9453Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the RAS8699410.24411/2618-9453-2020-10012ArticlesСтатьиResearch ArticleThe VCP internal policy and possible legacies of the VCP-CPSU relationship: some hypothesesВнутренняя политика КПВ и наследие отношений КПВ c КПСС: некоторые гипотезыFfordeAdamФьордАдам

Associate Professor, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne; Adjunct Professor, Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australi

доцент Азиатского института Мельбурнского университета; адъюнкт-профессор Института стратегических экономических исследований Университета Виктории, Австралия

adam@aduki.com.auAsia Institute, University of MelbourneАзиатский институт Мельбурнского университета1506202042NO2 (2020)№2 (2020)182605112021Copyright ©; 2020, Fforde A.Copyright ©; 2020, Фьорд А.2020Fforde A.Фьорд А.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://vietnamjournal.ru/2618-9453/article/view/86994

The paper looks at Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) internal organisational policies and supposes the influence of the legacy of the early stage of relations with the CPSU. It puts forward hypothesises that explain problems in creating adequate domestic sovereignty and concentration of legitimate power to ‘govern subjects’ in the contemporary market economy. The author refers to evidence for antipathy to such concentrations, seen as multiple office-holding, and to VCP formal requirements for structural representation in important activities. He proposes Linz’s notion of ‘limited pluralism’ as a suitable analytical framework.

В статье рассмотрена внутренняя организационная политика Коммунистической партии Вьетнама (КПВ) и обоснован тезис о том, что она во многом обусловлена наследием раннего этапа отношений с КПСС. Выдвинута гипотеза о том, что эта политика затрудняет обеспечение адекватного контроля над внутренними процессами в стране и порождает проблемы в «управлении субъектами» современной рыночной экономики. На основе проведенного анализа сделан вывод об очевидной антипатии КПВ к чрезмерной концентрации власти, выражающейся в ее распределении между различными учреждениями и реализации принципа «структурного представительства» (различных групп населения в заранее заданных пропорциях) во властных коридорах и важных видах сферах деятельности. Автор опирается на концепцию Линца об «ограниченном плюрализме» в качестве подходящей аналитической основы.

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