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A must-read for students of Cambodia and of state-led economic development. Tyner argues that Khmer Rouge leaders inductively drew lessons from physical conditions and economic practice to shape the contours of their revolutionary society, culminating in a specialized form of state capitalism. His analysis complicates what we know of the nature of Cambodian communism lurking behind the mass killings in Democratic Kampuchea.--Andrew Mertha, professor of government, Cornell University Tyner's argument makes for bracing and timely reading in a world where exploitation and class politics seem as salient as ever, and where new generations struggle to develop alternatives.--Jim Glassman, professor of geography, University of British Columbia In this path-breaking and provocative work, Tyner examines the political economy of the Cambodian genocide through the lens of dialectical materialism. Challenging essentially the entire existing corpus of scholarship on the Khmer Rouge revolution, Tyner fashions not only a novel theory of genocidal processes, but also makes fresh contributions to the analysis of revolution. He concludes that rather than the super-great leap forward into communism that they thought they were engineering, Cambodia's inept would-be communists instead erected the most predatory form of state capitalism ever devised.--Craig Etcheston, author of After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide

A must-read for students of Cambodia and of stateled economic development. Tyner argues that KhmerRouge leaders inductively drew lessons from physical conditions and economic practice to shape thecontours of their revolutionary society, culminating in a specialized form of state capitalism. His analysiscomplicates what we know of the nature of Cambodian communism lurking behind the mass killings inDemocratic Kampuchea.' - Andrew Mertha, professor of government, Cornell University

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James A. Tyner is professor of geography at Kent State University. He is the author ofmore than a dozen books, including Genocide and the Geographical Imagination: Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia.

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