The Pol Pot Regime race, power and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rough,1975-79
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...
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Yale University Press
1999
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| Call Number : | DS 554.8 .K584 1996 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Pol Pot Regime |b race, power and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rough,1975-79 |c Ben Kiernan |
| 260 | |a New Haven |b Yale University Press |c 1999 | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 477 p., [20] p. of plates |b ill., maps |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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, 1975-77 -- The base areas -- The southwest and the east -- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77 -- 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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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