The Left and Indonesia’s 1960s: the politics of remembering and forgetting.
This article examines a pivotal decade in the recent history of Indonesian society: the 1960s. It examines the context within which the Left came to be decisively, and violently, defeated as a social and political force. It then studies the consequences of this defeat for Indonesia’s subsequent hist...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 554 - 570 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2006
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