Lachlan Peters
In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare
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In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare
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Lachlan sits down with Matt Madden, translator of Chan Samoeun’s Prisoners of Class. The book, having been recently released in English for the first time, is an amazing example of a Khmer Rouge survivor memoir.They discuss Matt’s journey i
What did the Tet offensive achieve?How was the Battle of Hue waged?Why were almost 3000 people murdered by the Viet Cong?Time Period Covered 1968This episode covers the Tet Offensive of early 1968. Lachlan links the media coverage of th
How did the CPK develop their plan to genuinely start a war in Cambodia?Why did Sihanouk seek rapprochment with the United States?How did the bombing of Cambodia begin?Time Period Covered 1967-1968January 1968 will prove to be a pivotal
What led to Mao's launching of a 'cultural revolution' in the People's Republic?What were the aims of this movement?Why did perhaps a million people die at the hands of their countrymen in less than four years?Time Period Covered 1964 - 1
Special guest Matthew Jagel joins Lachlan to talk about his new book: Khmer Nationalist. The book is an exploration of Cambodian history using Son Ngoc Thanh as the central focus, and they join up to talk about Cambodian nationalism, the influe
What was the Samlaut Rebellion, and how did it start?Who was responsible for this outbreak of violence?What leads to Khieu Samphan disappearing over night?Time Period Covered 1967In the first part of an explanation of how the Cambodian
How does the "Vietnam War" begin?How did the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) get its name?Why did Sihanouk start making so many movies in the 1960's?Time Period Covered 1964 - 1967In this episode, Lachlan revisits Vietnam as LBJ wage
Who was Nuon Chea?What does Buddhism have to do with Khmer Rouge ideology?Why did Sihanouk sever ties with the United States?Time Period Covered 1963 - 1965In this episode we explore the impact of the fateful year of 1963 in Cambodia,
What is Agent Orange and why did the Kennedy Administration decide to use it? How did Diem's Regime collapse?What was the Buddhist Crisis?Time Period Covered 1961 - 1963In the final part of our exploration into the beginnings of t
How did a succession of US administrations become stuck in Vietnam?How did Diem's policies create the conditions for insurgency?What did the early activities of the NLF look like?Time Period Covered 1954 - 1961In part two of our e
What occurred in a divided Vietnam in the aftermath of the Geneva Accords?How did so many die during the North Vietnamese “Land Reform Campaign”?Why was South Vietnam described as an ‘emerging fascist state’?Time Period Covered 1954 -
How did Pol Pot become leader of the Khmer Rouge?What did prominent communists like Khieu Samphan do in Sihanouk’s Cambodia?Were there limits to Sihanouk’s power and tightrope act?Time Period Covered 1960-1963We begin with a reflec
Why was one of the most prominent slogans of the Khmer Rouge about a "super great leap forward"?What is Maoism and why did the People's Republic of China provide a new ideological source for the world?Why did the USSR and the PRC split in t
How does the Communist Party of Kampuchea form? How does Saloth Sar become a married man and teacher? What are the consequences of Sihanouk’s neutral foreign policy?Time Period Covered 1955-1960As peace broke out over Cambodia in the wa
This bonus episode is for those who would like to remind themselves of the topics covered in the first season of the podcast, or for new listeners who might want a simple overview of Cambodian history as it relates to the rise and fall of the K
How does the First Indochina War end? What do the Geneva Accords mean for Cambodia? Who wins the 1955 Cambodian general election?Time Period Covered December 1953 – July 1955Cambodia faces Viet Minh assaults around the country as the Fi
How does Cambodian Independence day originate in November 1953? What does the First Indochina War look like in Cambodia? How does a young Pol Pot 'join the maquis'?Time Period Covered January – December 1953 This episode explains the action
How did the First Indochina War become part of the Cold War? When did the Khmer students studying in Paris become communists? What influenced Saloth Sar to become a revolutionary?Time Period Covered 1947-1953This episode explains the way th
Craig Etcheson is currently visiting scientist at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, and he was a founder of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, he has been studying the Khmer Rouge regime for more than thirty years. He worked as an i
What does the anti-colonial scene look like in Cambodia? Who are the Khmer Issarak and how do nationalists and young Cambodian students relate to this movement as well as the growing war in Vietnam with the returning French? Time Period Cover
What is the Umbrella Revolt in Cambodia? How do nationalists like Son Ngoc Thanh react to the rise of Imperial Japan? What are the circumstances surrounding the choice of Norodom Sihanouk as the new Cambodian king in 1941 - as a 19 year old?T
How do you build a society out of the theories of Marx and Engels? Who was Lenin and why is he such an important communist figure? How did communism come to Indochina?Time Period Covered: 1917 - 1939Beginning with Lenin being sent into the
Who are the proletariat? Who wrote the Communist Manifesto? What was the context in which it was written?Time Period Covered 1842 – 1900This episode is intended to function as an introduction to the ideas of Marx and Engels, and more broadl
What did French control of Cambodia look like? How did this ‘Protectorate’ function? What are the origins of Cambodian nationalism? What was life like for your average Khmer in the early 20th century?Time Period Covered 1880 – 1938This epis
What happened in the years leading up the French colonisation of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam? How did Cambodian rulers become so dependent on either Siam or Vietnam for protection?Time period covered: 1789 - 1887In this episode, Lachlan bri
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