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Author Kiernan, Ben, author.

Title The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan
Edition Third edition
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008

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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
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
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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Subject Pol Pot
SUBJECT Pol, Pot fast
Subject Parti communiste du Kampuchea
SUBJECT Parti communiste du Kampuchea fast
Subject Communism -- Cambodia
Political atrocities -- Cambodia
Genocide -- Cambodia
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Communism
Genocide
Political atrocities
Politics and government
SUBJECT Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019095
Subject Cambodia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300142990
0300142994
0300144342
9780300144345
128235230X
9781282352308
9786612352300
6612352302