The most widely publicized Kampuchea event of 1982 was the founding of the resistance coalition of Khmer Rouge, Sonn Sannists and Sihanoukists. But internally, People's Revolutionary Kampuchea continued to concentrate on achieving self-sufficiency in food production, and the resistance made few...

The Khmer communist movement developed only after World War Two, in response to the reimposition of French colonial power and under the patronage of Vietnamese communists. One of several currents of Khmer nationalism, it became the largest one by 1952-1953. Working within the Issarak...