Emergency / Kumar Ramakrishna
- Bib ID:
- 7329462
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ramakrishna, Kumar, author
- Description:
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- Singapore : Institute of Policy Studies ; Straits Times Press, 2016
- ©2016
- 106 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789814747097 (paperback)
- 9814747092 (paperback)
- Series:
- Singapore chronicles.
- Summary:
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"This book examines the origins of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in the inter-War years and its subsequent development against the wider backdrop of the Cold War. The chameleon-like CPM, in its determined quest to set up a Communist Republic of Malaya and Singapore, mounted a violent rural insurgency in Malaya and later shifted to urban subversion of the bourgeoning anti-colonial left-wing movement in Singapore itself. It was a gambit that almost succeeded. Contemporary Singapore's emphasis on law and order cannot be understood without reference to its long twilight struggle with the CPM, a fateful confl ict that ended only in 1989."--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The Communist Party of Malaya: origins, the United Front Strategy and the impact of the emergency, 1930-1954
- 2. The Apogee of the Communist United Front in Singapore: 1954-1963
- 3. Operation Coldstore and the decimation of the Communist United Front in Singapore, 1961-1963
- 4. The long twilight of the Communists, 1963-1989
- 5. Conclusion: the historic Communist threat to Singapore: mush ado about nothing?
- Endnotes
- Further reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [97]-102) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore)
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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