Description |
1 online resource (477 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: The Making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge Victory -- Part I: Wiping the Slate Clean: The Regime Takes Shape -- CHAPTER TWO: Cleansing the Cities: The Quest for Total Power -- CHAPTER THREE: Cleansing the Countryside: Race, Power, and the Party, 1973�75 -- CHAPTER FOUR: Cleansing the Frontiers: Neighbors, Friends, and Enemies, 1975�76 -- Part II: Writing on the Slate, 1975�77: The CPK Project |
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CHAPTER FIVE: An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975�77 (I): The Base Areas�The Southwest and the EastCHAPTER SIX: An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975�77 (II): Peasants and Deportees in the Northwest -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Ethnic Cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's Minorities, 1975�77 -- Part III: The Slate Crumbles, 1977�79: Convulsion and Destruction -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Power Politics, 1976�77 -- CHAPTER NINE: Foreign Relations, 1977�78: Warfare, Weapons, and Wildlife -- CHAPTER TEN: Thunder without Rain: Race and Power in Cambodia, 1978 |
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: The End of the Pol Pot RegimeSelect Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photos and maps |
Summary |
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' |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-469) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Pol Pot
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Pol, Pot fast |
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Parti communiste du Kampuchea
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Parti communiste du Kampuchea fast |
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Communism -- Cambodia
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Political atrocities -- Cambodia
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Genocide -- Cambodia
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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Communism
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Genocide
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Political atrocities
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Politics and government
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Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019095
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Cambodia
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780300142990 |
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0300142994 |
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0300144342 |
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9780300144345 |
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128235230X |
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9781282352308 |
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9786612352300 |
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6612352302 |
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