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Article: From PKI to the Comintern: 1924-1941, The Apprenticeship of the Malayan Communist Party: Selected Documents and Discussion.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall in the autumn of 1989 and subsequently the abandonment of the communist ideology and practice in Moscow as well as the decision of most leaders of the Malayan Communist Party in December 1989 to renounce their armed struggle and rejoin civilian life, the time seems right to start writing in detail the history of communism world-wide and ponder its impact on our societies in this century.
Therefore Cheah Boon Kheng's monograph constitutes a very useful document for the study of the MCP from its inception to the Japanese invasion.
The book is divided into two main sections: first an introduction to offer an overview of the ...