How Pol Pot came to power

Yale University Press

2004

liii, 430 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780300102628

The origins of Khmer politics: Kampuchea between the wars -- Contending colonialisms: 1940-49 -- Contending nationalisms: 1949-52 -- Stalemate: 1952-54 -- International supervision -- The changing of the vanguard: "political struggle", 1955-66 -- The first civil war, 1967-70 -- Contending communisms: the second civil war, 1970-75

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