Recently added articles from Journal of Southeast Asian Studies:
Did the Soviet Union instruct Southeast Asian communists to revolt? New Russian evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Introduction There has been considerable speculation among historians of the Cold War and of Soviet policy towards Indonesia, right up to the present, concerning the communist-sponsored Southeast Asian Youth Conference held in Calcutta in February 1948. There, it has been ...
The origins of the Asian Cold War: Malaya 1948.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... By early 1948 the high levels of violence that had stalked Malaya since the end of the Pacific War appeared to be ebbing a little. In January and March 1948, murders in Malaya reached a post-war low: seven in each month. Strikes were below their postwar peak. (1) The Malayan Security ...
The origins of the Southeast Asian Cold War.
Oct 01, 2009; ... How and when did the Cold War manifest itself in Southeast Asia? More particularly, how are we to understand the connections between global great power rivalry and the specific regional problems and tensions which marked Southeast Asia in the five years after the end of the Second World ...
'It's time for the Indochinese Revolution to show its true colours': the radical turn of Vietnamese politics in 1948.
Oct 01, 2009; ... Introduction Cold War historians have neglected the significance of 1948 as a key turning point in Indochina. They have instead focused on 1950, the year when the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) successfully secured support from China and the Soviet bloc and when the French ...
The Cold War in Indonesia, 1948.
Oct 01, 2009; ... After the end of the Second World War, communication between the Soviet Union and the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI, Indonesian Communist Party) was complicated, difficult and for periods of time, non-existent. It fitted a pattern that can be discerned since the founding of the PKI, the ...