Pol Pot's Little Red Book The Sayings of Angkar

Name: Pol Pot's Little Red Book The Sayings of Angkar
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ISBN: 9789749575567

ISBN-10: 9749575563

ISBN-13: 9789749575567

Edition: 2004

Authors: Henri Locard, David Chandler

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This handbook of slogans, interspersed with historical commentary and contextual analysis, describes the Khmer Rouge regime and exposes the horrific foundation upon which it constructed its reign of terror. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in Phnom Penh. In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of their government, they made a tabula rasa of Cambodian society and culture, forcing the people to evacuate the cities and move to the countryside. They instituted a total collectivism based on the doctrine of "Pol Pot-ism," the Cambodian version of fundamentalist Maoism. Assembled in this collection are the sayings that make up a "newspeak" uttered by the Khmer Rouge…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Publication date: 1/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English