POL215Y1 Chapter 5: Week5 Cambodia and Laos Reading
17 Oct 2016
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Cambodia and laos in political change in southeast asia. pp. 165-189: communism regime in both countries were never able to establish the stability, civil war, poor economic development --> small and politically insignificant middle class. The khmer people"s revolutionary party (kprp): sihanouk created a one-party kingdom, maintained broad support and prevented the communists, peace and neutralized policy in cold war. Elite division to war: esclation of vietnam war --> khmer refugees from vietnam and fled into. The most brutal authoritarian regimes in 20th century, motivated by radical ideology: forced work in rural areas, state-collective agriculture, by 1979, more than 1. 2 million people had died of starvation, disease, overwork or outright execution. Its ideology was inspired by marxist-leninist and borrowed experience: mass mobilization, purify and renew population (china, agricultural collectivism (stalin, soviet union, revolutionary fervour rather than success, self-consciously trying a revolutionary experience, executions and tortures, manipulated youths. Vietnamese-supported regime, civil war and united nations intervention.
