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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kiernan, Ben
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : London : Yale University Press, 2002.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Yale Nota bene.
Subjects:
Communism > Cambodia.
Political atrocities > Cambodia.
Genocide > Cambodia.
Cambodia > History > 1975-1979.
Cambodia > Politics and government > 1975-1979.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One Introduction Making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge victory
  • Part I Wiping the slate clean: the regime takes over
  • 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 East
  • Chapter six 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.