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The Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
Ben Kiernan
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The Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
Ben Kiernan
About This Book
This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive 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.
"Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and] valuable." -Nation
"In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan . . . explores the reasons why Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare." -Richard Gough, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Perhaps the most complete [account of Pol Pot's terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources." -Economist
"One of the most important contributions to the subject so far." -R. B. Smith,Asian Affairs
"Kiernan, the leading authority on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines Pol Pot's killing machine and clears up many misconceptions found in earlier studies. . . . An important book for students of genocide as well as scholars of Southeast Asia." -Library Journal
"[A] detailed and chilling history." -Asiaweek
"The most detailed history to date of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. . . . This book . . . will certainly be the benchmark against which all future research on the Khmer Rouge must be measured. Very highly recommended." -Choice
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Table of 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, 1973â75
- 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 East
- CHAPTER 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 Regime
- Select Bibliography
- Index