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The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan.

Title
The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan.
Author
Kiernan, Ben
Publication
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2008.

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Description
xxxix, 477 p. : ill., map; 20 cm.
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'.
Subject
  • Pol, Pot
  • Parti communiste du Kampuchea
  • Geschichte 1975-1979
  • 1975-1979
  • Communism > Cambodia
  • Political atrocities > Cambodia
  • Genocide > Cambodia
  • Cambodia > History > 1975-1979
  • Cambodia > History > 1979-1993
  • Cambodia > Politics and government > 1975-1979
  • Cambodia > Politics and government > 1979-1993
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Previous ed.: 1996.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780300144345 (pbk.)
  • 0300144342 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 227274736
  • SCSB-12131523
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library