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How Pol Pot Came to Power

By Kiernan , Ben;Pol Pot

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300102628, 0300102623
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4436341 bytes)
Edition
2nd edition
Pages
430\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power? This authoritative book explores what happened in Cambodia from 1930 to 1975, tracing the origins and trajectory of the Cambodian Communist movement and setting the ascension of Pol Pot's genocidal regime in the context of the conflict between colonialism and nationalism. A new preface bring this edition up to date.

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