The Pol Pot Regime; Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, Third Edition

Introduction: the making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge victory -- Cleansing the cities: the quest for total power -- Cleasnsing the countryside: race, power, and the aprty, 1973-75 -- Cleansing the frontiers: neighbors, friends, and enemies, 1975-76 -- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77 (1): the base areas-- the Southwest and the East -- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77(II)-- peasants and deportees inthe Northwest -- Ethnic cleansing and Cambodia's minorities, 1975-77 -- Power politics, 1976-77 -- Foreign relations, 1977-78: warfare, weapons and wildlife -- "Thunder without rain": race and power in Cambodia, 1978 -- The end of the Pol Pot regime.

Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp). His other books include Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur and How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975, published by Yale University Press.