The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists: A History of Their Relations as Told in the Soviet Archives

Mosyakov, Dmitry V.

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“…Through the 1940s and early 1950s, their campaign was focused on independence from France and was extremely popular among Khmer radicals, however, after France granted Cambodia independence in 1953, their recruitment momentum was briskly suspended (Carlton, 1996). After the 1954 Geneva Agreements, when the communist Vietnamese agreed to withdraw from Cambodia, Sihanouk's Royal Forces captured the communist bases and forced the communist Khmer movement underground (Mosyakov, 2004).…”

Section: Rise Of the Khmer Rougementioning

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“…Ultimately, Vietnamese communists chose to ally with Sihanouk rather than the juvenile communist party due to his ability to grant access to the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which was essential for delivering ammunition and arms to South Vietnam (Mosyakov, 2004). Though the Khmer communists saw this as an apparent betrayal, they inevitably agreed to compromise with the Vietnamese and accepted Vietnam-trusted personnel, such as Nuon Chea, due to the fact that they were in need of Vietnamese aid for the armed struggle in Cambodia (Mosyakov, 2004). North-Vietnamese support proved to be worthwhile during the Khmer Rouge's multiple skirmishes in the countryside of 1970, when North-Vietnam responded to Nuon Chea's call for help; such intervention led to extreme growth of Khmer Rouge influence as Vietnamese forces captured almost a quarter of Cambodian territory in their stead (Mosyakov, 2004).…”

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“…Though the Khmer communists saw this as an apparent betrayal, they inevitably agreed to compromise with the Vietnamese and accepted Vietnam-trusted personnel, such as Nuon Chea, due to the fact that they were in need of Vietnamese aid for the armed struggle in Cambodia (Mosyakov, 2004). North-Vietnamese support proved to be worthwhile during the Khmer Rouge's multiple skirmishes in the countryside of 1970, when North-Vietnam responded to Nuon Chea's call for help; such intervention led to extreme growth of Khmer Rouge influence as Vietnamese forces captured almost a quarter of Cambodian territory in their stead (Mosyakov, 2004). In addition to warring chaos in the countryside, Khmer Rouge destruction of trade markets in villages -many of which were owned by Sino-Khmer-forced families like mine to migrate to larger cities like Phnom Penh where city dwellers were forced to absorb their refugee relatives and friends from other provinces (Green, 1972).…”

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“…As this militia recruited thousands from rural villages and came to power as the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party -popularly known as the Khmer Rougethey became warier of foreign interference with their communist movement. Ideally, the ICP had planned for Vietnam to consolidate with Laos and Cambodia under Vietnamese direction (Mosyakov, 2004). However, such intentions failed to evade Khmer Rouge intelligence and combined with fossilized distrust of Vietnam due to ancient relations, the Khmer Rouge was in constant doubt of their alliance with Vietnam.…”

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Thank you to my advisor, Johnathan Cutler, for guiding me throughout this process and always asking the important questions. Thank you to my family for supporting me throughout my life and collecting all of our memories to share in this project. Thank you for re-remembering the horrors you wanted to forget and fighting for our lives. Thank you to all my friends, especially Rafael Orona and Shemaiah Clarke, for constantly checking in on me, motivating me, and getting me under some sunlight. Thank you to my partner, Erdal Redzovic, for listening to my concerns, dealing with my constant state of (di)stress, and feeding me every now and then. Finally, thank you to my furry son, Milo, for being by my side through the whole writing process. ACCRONYMS AALBA-Asian American Licensed Beverage Association; this abbreviation is specific to Philadelphia, however, there are similar organizations throughout the U.S.

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This article traces the intellectual contributions of Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) intellectual and founder Hou Yuon, whose influence on party policy has been the subject of scholarly debate. Although proposals in his political writings were implemented in CPK liberated zones and, later, Democratic Kampuchea (1975, his outspoken nature led to his ejection from the CPK picture and from appraisals of Cambodian Communism. From his studies in France to his death in 1975, Hou Yuon's importance as a Cambodian Marxist and Communist deserves our attention. Marxist theory provided him a critical interpretive paradigm and language with which to contextualize Cambodia's stark rural-urban divide and larger issues of global capitalist exploitation in his writings, most notably in his 1955 doctoral dissertation. The goal of this article is to uncover the link between Hou Yuon's application of Marxist theory to understand inequality and underdevelopment in his homeland and more broadly, to fill the gap between the Paris Group Cercle Marxiste and many of its members' leap to "pure socialism" and "total equality" in founding Democratic Kampuchea.

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Southeast Asia is home to some of the planet’s most carbon-dense and biodiverse mangrove ecosystems. There is still much uncertainty with regards to the timing and magnitude of changes in mangrove cover over the past 50 years. While there are several regional to global maps of mangrove extent in Southeast Asia over the past two decades, data prior to the mid-1990s is limited due to the scarcity of Earth Observation (EO) data of sufficient quality and the historical limitations to publicly available EO. Due to this literature gap and research demand in Southeast Asia, we conducted a classification of mangrove extent using Landsat 1-2 MSS Tier 2 data from 1972 to 1977 for three Southeast Asian countries: Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia. Mangrove extent land cover maps were generated using a Random Forest machine learning algorithm that effectively mapped a total of 15,420.51 km2. Accuracy assessments indicated that the classification for the mangrove and non-mangrove class had a producer’s accuracy of 80% and 98% user’s accuracy of 90% and 96%, and an overall accuracy of 95%. We found a decline of 6,830 km2 between the 1970s and 2020, showing that 44% of the mangrove area in these countries has been lost in the past 48 years. Most of this loss occurred between the 1970s and 1996; rates of deforestation declined dramatically after 1996. This study also elaborated on the nature of mangrove change within the context of the social and political ecology of each case study country. We urge the remote sensing community to empathetically consider the local need of those who depend on mangrove resources when discussing mangrove loss drivers.

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The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists: A History of Their Relations as Told in the Soviet Archives

Cited by 3 publications

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Webs of Ruin and Bloom: An Analysis of the Overseas Chinese Networks in Cambodia

Webs of Ruin and Bloom: An Analysis of the Overseas Chinese Networks in Cambodia

Specters of Dependency: Hou Yuon and the Origins of Cambodia's Marxist Vision (1955–1975)

A regional map of mangrove extent for Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia shows losses of 44% by 1996

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