Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Society and State in pre-revolutionary Ethiopia and Cambodia Chapter 3 Growth and Dissemination of Revolutionary Ideas Chapter 4 Empire and Kingdom in Revolution Chapter 5 State-terror and the Quest for Total Power Chapter 6 Determining and Prosecuting Genocide Chapter 7 Foreign Relations and Territorial Politics Chapter 8 Conclusion
Edward Kissi is assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Edward Kissi's analytically stimulating Revolution and Genocide in
Ethiopia and Cambodia is a fruitful comparative study probing
deeply beneath surface appearances to shed new light on key
differences between the revolutions in Cambodia and Ethiopia and
their atrocious consequences. After reading his nuanced
comparisons, no reader will ever again be satisfied with glib
generalizations about the similarities between the revolutionary
regimes of Pol Pot and Mengistu.
*Prof. Frank Chalk, co-author of The History and Sociology of
Genocide and co-director, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human
Rights Studies at*
Kissi has produced a provocative and engaging comparative
masterpiece that genocide scholars as well as historians of
Ethiopia and Cambodia will find informative and
fascinating....Kissi deserves commendation for augmenting the
Ethiopian side with oral interviews and newspaper accounts.
*African Studies Review, September 2008*
Edward Kissi's pioneering comparison of the Cambodian and Ethiopian
revolutions makes an important contribution to the study of modern
genocide as well as to that of comparative Third World politics. It
is a close, careful, scholarly assessment of contemporaneous
disasters in two kingdoms on different continents, and reveals
interesting commonalities and differences in their societies and
the regimes that almost destroyed them, the Khmer Rouge and the
Dergue.
*Ben Kiernan, director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale
University, author of How Pol Pot Came to Power and The Pol Pot
Regime*
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