The transitional gov't. was called the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Accts. I skimmed a while back, "Cruel April, " by Todd Olivier (?) a French journalist and an autobiography of a PRG official who spent yrs. in a re-education camp, Doan van Tai co-authored with right-winger David Chanoff, make me feel that some in the anti-war movement romanticized, for understandable reasons, the only justified force against US imperialism. U.S. did kill 2.8 million Vietnamese after all. But, anyone who expected after such devastation, demographically and to the ecology of SE Asia (see Eco-cide, a Ramparts Press book from '72) , an Asian version of Sweden, after the victory, was in cloud cuckoo land.
A good play by a British lefty playright is, "Maydays." Forget if it is David Hare or David Edgar. One of those fellows wrote a play based on Fanshen too. Found it didactic.But then didn't Marx prefer Balzac, a reactionary, to Eugene Sue, a progressive? Michael Pugliese, gonna re-read Celine, the fascist anti-semite...(not Dion!)why? Cuz Trotsky told me to!