Hand in Hand with Pol Pot. The Workers’ Communist Party  
in Relation to the Khmer Rouge 1975–1981 Cover Image

Pod rękę z Pol Potem. Komunistyczna Partia Robotników wobec Czerwonych Khmerów 1975–1981
Hand in Hand with Pol Pot. The Workers’ Communist Party in Relation to the Khmer Rouge 1975–1981

Author(s): Michał Gęsiarz
Subject(s): Political history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Uniwersytet Gdański
Keywords: WorkNorwegian left-wing politics; Maoism; totalitarianism; Cambodia

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine relations between the Norwegian Workers’ Communist Party and Pol Pot’s Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1981. The Norwegian Maoist movement held a deeply positive view of the Khmer Rouge regime, which resulted in its send-ing a delegation to Phnom Penh in September 1978. In the article I will analyze how they in-terpreted the regime, focusing on delegates’ memoirs and debates after the fall of the Khmer Rouge government.

  • Issue Year: 23/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 133-149
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish