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Bad Lieutenants : The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970-1997 by Andrew Mertha (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Rather than take the moderate tack required for viable governance, it pivoted between only two political strategies: united front and class struggle. Title: Bad Lieutenants. Topic: Military History, Law & Politics.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCornell University Press

ISBN-101501780999

ISBN-139781501780998

eBay Product ID (ePID)17070694471

Product Key Features

Book TitleBad Lieutenants : the Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970-1997

Number of Pages276 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsia / Southeast Asia, History & Theory, Asia / General

Publication Year2025

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorAndrew Mertha

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-051160

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal959.6042

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Political Cycles: United Front and Class Struggle 1. The First United Front: Colonizing the Movement from Within, 1970?1972 2. Before and After Year Zero: A World of Class Struggle, 1973?1978 3. Dusting Off United Front Doctrine, 1979?1984 4. Command and Control in the Shadows and on the Periphery, 1985?1989 5. An Unattainable Political Space, 1990?1993 6. Back to Basics: Scorched-Earth Class Struggle, 1994?1997 Conclusion: "Pure Socialism"

SynopsisBad 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberDS554.82