Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79 : Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

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 aut...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface to the Third Edition --  |t Preface to the Second Edition --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t List of Acronyms --  |t Glossary --  |t CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge Victory --  |t Part I: Wiping the Slate Clean: The Regime Takes Shape --  |t CHAPTER TWO Cleansing the Cities: The Quest for Total Power --  |t CHAPTER THREE Cleansing the Countryside: Race, Power, and the Party, 1973-75 --  |t CHAPTER FOUR Cleansing the Frontiers: Neighbors, Friends, and Enemies, 1975-76 --  |t Part II: Writing on the Slate, 1975-77: The CPK Project --  |t CHAPTER FIVE An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975-77 (I): The Base Areas-The Southwest and the East --  |t CHAPTER SIX An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975-77 (II): Peasants and Deportees in the Northwest --  |t CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's Minorities, 1975-77 --  |t Part III: The Slate Crumbles, 1977-79: Convulsion and Destruction --  |t CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics, 1976-77 --  |t CHAPTER NINE Foreign Relations, 1977-78: Warfare, Weapons, and Wildlife --  |t CHAPTER TEN "Thunder without Rain": Race and Power in Cambodia, 1978 --  |t CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime --  |t Select Bibliography --  |t Index. 
520 |a 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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