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The Cambridge History of Communism
  • Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s
  • Edited by Norman Naimark, Silvio Pons, Sophie Quinn-Judge
  • Published online:
    28 September 2017
    Print publication:
    21 September 2017
  • The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.

  • 15 - Fraternal aid, self-defence, or self-interest? Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia, 1978–1989

  • Edited by Brendan Simms, University of Cambridge, D. J. B. Trim, University of Reading
  • Book:
    Humanitarian Intervention
    Published online:
    18 April 2011
    Print publication:
    07 April 2011, pp 343-362

  • Summary

    The righteous actions of the Vietnamese people and the people of Kampuchea are in harmony with the principles of the Non-aligned Movement and the United Nations Charter.

    Truong Chinh, Ve Van De Cam-pu-chia (1979)

    Vietnam's march into its smaller, weaker neighbour in late 1978, with weapons supplied by the Soviet Union, looked to many observers like a classic annexation. The Vietnamese themselves did not attempt to defend their action as a ‘humanitarian intervention’, although they expected much of the world to approve their removal of the Pol Pot regime. This obsessively secretive Cambodian government had cut off its population from most contacts with the outside world since coming to power in April 1975. Over the nearly four years of Pol Pot's rule, news of the brutal agrarian regime he inflicted on Cambodia had seeped out via refugees who made their way to the Thai border. A Khmer-speaking US diplomat, Charles Twining, had spent months in these border camps interviewing refugees and cross-checking their stories of hunger and executions. Another Khmer speaker, Father François Ponchaud, had published his findings on Khmer Rouge brutality in Le Monde in February 1976, when he estimated that as many as 800,000 killings had occurred. The basic outlines of what was going on in Cambodia were thus becoming well known when Twining testified at hearings of the House International Relations Subcommittee in July 1977.