Oil lamp, used by the Northern Unit of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League at a meeting in Tu Son, Bac Ninh province, September 1928.
Oil lamp, used by the Northern Unit of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League at a meeting in Tu Son, Bac Ninh province, September 1928.
The Northern Unit decided on the policy of “proletarianization” which involved the novel strategy of deploying intellectual and bourgeois members of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League as workers in mines and factories so as to awaken, organize and lead those employed there into the struggle for revolution and liberation of the country. The lamp is 33cm in height; the oil container is made of glass with a circumference of 15cm, the lampstand is of metal.