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Brother number one: A political biography of Pol Pot

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Pol Pot is an extraordinarily challenging subject, for no modern revolutionary leader has so purposefully, and successfully, left so little trace. And he certainly deserves his enigmatic reputation: an indifferent student, he became a gifted teacher; an amiable mediocrity as a youth, he led (leads) one of the world's toughest guerrilla organizations; described by all who knew him as polite, charming, and deferential, he presided over the deaths of a million people; a protégé of the Vietnamese, he embraced purge and revolution as means to withstand them. But on fleeing Phnom Penh before the advancing Vietnamese, he left the extraordinary testimony of 4,000 'confes sions' extracted from prisoners of Toul Sleng Prison, among them many close associates. Chandler has made brilliant use of these sources, along with rare primary documents and interviews, to write a biography that will not be sur passed even if the subject one day writes his own confession.

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0106-2009-Ali Alatas

959.604 092 Cha b

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

959.604 092 Cha b

Penerbit

Oxford : Westview Press., 1992

Deskripsi Fisik

xiv, 254 pages ; ilustrations, maps, bibliography, index ; 24 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8133-0927-1

Klasifikasi

959.604 092

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

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Subjek

Pol Pot
Cambodia--Politics and government
Prime ministers--Cambodia--Biography

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

David P. Chandler

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