The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79Yale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 477 pages This edition of Ben Kiernan's account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'. |
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... revolution became a Cambodian nightmare . " - Richard Gough , Times Higher Education Supplement " A crucial contribution to the existing historical literature on the subject . " - Hélène Lambert , International Affairs " For anyone ...
... revolution became a Cambodian nightmare . " - Richard Gough , Times Higher Education Supplement " A crucial contribution to the existing historical literature on the subject . " - Hélène Lambert , International Affairs " For anyone ...
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... revolution . One exception was Long Bunruot , a veteran communist educated in Thailand and Vietnam , who served beginning in 1962 as Sar's deputy party secretary under the nom de guerre Nuon Chea . After taking to the jungle in armed ...
... revolution . One exception was Long Bunruot , a veteran communist educated in Thailand and Vietnam , who served beginning in 1962 as Sar's deputy party secretary under the nom de guerre Nuon Chea . After taking to the jungle in armed ...
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... revolution " would not teach historians anything they want to know . " He saw such knowledge as useful only for comparison of " wars and revolutions as such , " whereas the historian's priority was " a general study " of the society and ...
... revolution " would not teach historians anything they want to know . " He saw such knowledge as useful only for comparison of " wars and revolutions as such , " whereas the historian's priority was " a general study " of the society and ...
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... revolution . The risk was too great . It was a case , in DK parlance , of " spare them , no profit ; remove them , no loss . " ' " The DK regime believed the transformation of Cambodia to be both a neces- sity for and a guarantee of its ...
... revolution . The risk was too great . It was a case , in DK parlance , of " spare them , no profit ; remove them , no loss . " ' " The DK regime believed the transformation of Cambodia to be both a neces- sity for and a guarantee of its ...
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... revolution would not have won power without U.S. economic and military destabilization of Cambodia , which began in 1966 after the American escalation in next - door Vietnam and peaked in 1969-73 with the carpet bombing of Cambodia's ...
... revolution would not have won power without U.S. economic and military destabilization of Cambodia , which began in 1966 after the American escalation in next - door Vietnam and peaked in 1969-73 with the carpet bombing of Cambodia's ...
Contents
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CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics 197677 | 313 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime | 440 |
Select Bibliography | 467 |
Other editions - View all
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 2008 |
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
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