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

Ben Kiernan (Author)
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'
eBook, English, 2008
Third edition View all formats and editions
Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], 2008
1 online resource (477 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780300142990, 9780300144345, 9781282352308, 9786612352300, 0300142994, 0300144342, 128235230X, 6612352302
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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, 1973�75
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 EastCHAPTER 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 RegimeSelect Bibliography
Index
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Photos and maps
English