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The Pol Pot regime race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chiang Mai Silkworm Books 1999.Description: xiii, 477 pages, [20] pages of plates illustrations, maps 24 cmISBN:
  • 9747100436 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.6043 KIE
Contents:
The making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge victory Cleansing the cities: the quest for total power Cleansing the countryside: race, power, and the party, 1973-75 Cleansing the frontiers: neighbors, friends, and enemies, 1975-76 An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77t regime. The base areas The southwest and the east Peasants and deportees in the northwest Ethnic cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's minorities, 1975-77 Power politics, 1976-77 Foreign relations, 1977-78: Warfare, weapons, and wildlife "Thunder without rain": race and power in Cambodia, 1978 The end of the Pol Pot regime
Summary: The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book - the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country.
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Books Books Center for Khmer Studies Phnom Penh 959.6043 KIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10364
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies LC Cambodian Collection 959.6043 KIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4536
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies RR Cambodian Collection 959.6043 KIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4535

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.

The making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge victory Cleansing the cities: the quest for total power Cleansing the countryside: race, power, and the party, 1973-75 Cleansing the frontiers: neighbors, friends, and enemies, 1975-76 An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77t regime. The base areas The southwest and the east Peasants and deportees in the northwest Ethnic cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's minorities, 1975-77 Power politics, 1976-77 Foreign relations, 1977-78: Warfare, weapons, and wildlife "Thunder without rain": race and power in Cambodia, 1978 The end of the Pol Pot regime

The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book - the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country.

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