| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 ""Original Khmer, "" 1928-1949; Who Was Pol Pot?; Palace Connections; Phnom Penh in the 1930s; The Weight of the Past; The Stirrings of Nationalism; Moving to Kompong Cham; Back in Phnom Penh; Working for the Democrats; 3 Becoming a Communist, 1949-1953; The First Year in Paris; Political Developments in Cambodia, 1950-1951; Turning to the Left; Becoming a Communist; 4 Multiple Identities, 1953-1963; Joining the Viet Minh; Geneva and the 1955 Elections |
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Becoming a TeacherA Militant for the Party; Focusing the Party; A Cambodian Party Takes Shape; The Death of Tou Samouth; Talking to Monks and Students; 5 ""Red Khmer, "" 1963-1970; A Hostage of the Vietnamese; The Visit to Vietnam; The Visit to China; A Change in Tactics; The Samlaut Uprising; Armed Struggle, 1968-1970; Sihanouk Loses His Grip; Saloth Sar Travels North; 6 Coming to Power, 1970-1976; Saloth Sar Comes Home; The National Democratic Revolution; From Cease-Fire to Bombardment; The Only Game in Town; Sihanouk Visits Saloth Sar; Preparing the Final Assault; The Final Assault |
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Saloth Sar Returns to Phnom PenhInventing Democratic Kampuchea; The Emergence of Pol Pot; 7 Prairie Fire, 1976-1977; The Four Year Plan; The Crisis of September-October 1976; Purges in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-1977; Purging Friends; Pol Pot and the ""Microbes, ; Punishing the Intelligentsia; Personal Details; War with Vietnam; Coming into the Open; 8 Coming Apart, 1977-1979; Pol Pot in China and North Korea; Cambodia's War with Vietnam; The War Begins; Opening Up; Attacking Enemies; A Cult of Personality?; Pol Pot on Display; 9 ""Grandfather 87,"" 1979-1998 |
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The Discovery of Democratic Kampuchea's HistoryConcealing Democratic Kampuchea; Repentant Optimist, 1979-1981; Dropping Out of Sight, 1981-1986; Summing Up for the Defense; Solving the Cambodian ""Problem, "" 1986-1991; The UNTAC Period; Grandfather 87,; The Implosion of the Red Khmer, 1994-1998; Chronology; Appendix 1: Non Suon's Biography of Pol Pot; Appendix 2: Khmer Personnel at ""Office 100,"" 1963-1966; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index |
| Summary |
"In the tragic recent history of Cambodia?a past scarred by a long occupation by Vietnamese forces and by the preceding three-year reign of terror by the brutal Khmer Rouge?no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. As secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) since 1962 and as prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea (DK), he has been widely blamed for trying to destroy Cambodian society. By implementing policies whose effects were genocidal, he oversaw the deaths of more than one million of his nation's people. The political career of Saloth Sar, better known by his nom de guerre Pol Pot, forms a critical but largely inaccessible portion of twentieth-century Cambodian history. What we know about his life is sketchy: a comfortable childhood, three years of study in France, and a short career as a schoolteacher preceded several years?spent mostly in hiding?as a guerrilla and the commander of the victorious army in Cambodia's civil war. His career reached a climax when he and his associates, coming to power, attempted to transform their country along lines more radical than any attempted by a modern regime. Driven into hiding in 1979 by invading Vietnamese forces, Pol Pot maintained his leadership of a Khmer Rouge guerrilla army in exile, remaining a power and a threat. In this political biography, David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot. Basing his study on interviews and on a wide range of sources in English, Cambodian, and French, the author illuminates the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of post?World War II events, providing a key to understanding this horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history. In this revised edition, Chandler provides new information on the state of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge following the death of Pol Pot in 1997"--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cambodia-Politics and government
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Pol Pot
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429981616 |
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0429981619 |
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