The People's Republic of Kampuchea, 1979-1989: The Revolution After Pol Pot

by Margaret Slocomb

Book Overview

When the Khmer Rouge troops entered Phnom Penh on 17th April 1975, it seemed that the Cambodian revolution had been secured. During the following four years, Cambodian society was dramatically transformed at great cost in terms of human misery and death. Despite its outward display of total power, the regime of Democratic Kampuchea was deeply fragmented along factional lines within the Communist Party of Kampuchea which eventually ripped it apart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9749575342
• ISBN13: 9789749575345
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher