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Bad Lieutenants
- The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970–1997
Engelsk Paperback
Bad Lieutenants
- The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970–1997
Engelsk Paperback

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Bad Lieutenants is a riveting account of how the Khmer Rouge remained a force to be reckoned with even after the fall of Democratic Kampuchea—and of the men behind the movement's strange durability. In 1979, the Vietnamese army seized Phnom Penh, toppling Pol Pot's notoriously brutal regime. Yet the Khmer Rouge did not disintegrate. Instead, the movement continued to rule over swathes of Cambodia for almost another two decades even as it failed to become a legitimate governing organization. Andrew Mertha argues that the Khmer Rouge's successes and failures were both driven by a refusal to dilute its revolutionary vision. Rather than take the moderate tack required for viable governance, it pivoted between only two political strategies: united front and class struggle. Through the stories of three key leaders—Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Ta Mok—Mertha tracks the movement's shifting from one strategy to the other until its dissolution in the 1990s. Vividly written and deeply researched, Bad Lieutenants reveals the powerful grip political ideology can have over the survival of insurgent movements.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501780998
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501780999
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 2025
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 2025
Forfatter(e):
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