How Pol Pot Came to Power

副标题: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975

ISBN: 9780300102628

出版社: Yale University Press

出版年: 2004-8

页数: 430

定价: $ 29.38

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.