The Pol Pot regime, race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, Ben Kiernan
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The Pol Pot regime, race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, Ben Kiernan
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The Pol Pot regime
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bibliography
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227274736
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Ben Kiernan
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race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
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'
Table of contents
Introduction: 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 (I): the base areas -- the Southwest and the East -- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77 (II): 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
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