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The Burmese Way to Socialism was introduced by the Union Revolutionary Council (URC), the military junta established by Ne Win and his allies in the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) after they overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister U Nu in a coup d'état on 2 March 1962. It ceased to be Burma's state ideology in 1988, when ...
The "Burmese Way to Socialism" was an economic and political program initiated in Burma (now Myanmar) after the 1962 coup led by General Ne Win. The plan aimed to transform Burma into a socialist state, combining elements of Buddhism and Marxism. [ 81] Under this program, the Revolutionary Council nationalized the economy, taking over key ...
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Ne Win founded the Burma Socialist Programme Party and overthrew the democratic Union Parliament of U Nu in the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, establishing Burma as a one-party socialist state under the Burmese Way to Socialism ideology.
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In their new document, the Burmese Way to Socialism (BWS), the theorists aban-. doned their earlier statement and argued now that Burma's problems were. the result of the economic system. It not only deformed society and the personal values and attitudes of the people but it contributed to disunity and social unrest.
Burma (Myanmar) was under the military dictatorship of Ne Win from 1962 to 1988. Ne Win and his allies in the Tatmadaw overthrew the government of Prime Minister U Nu in a coup d'état on 2 March 1962. A day later, the coupists established the Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma as the country's governing body. In April 1962, the Revolutionary Council introduced the Burmese Way to ...
804 BURMESE WAY TO SOCIALISM tion of economic developments.' The Burmese statistical machinery con-tinues to operate and the Reports to the People carry large and varying masses of raw data. Analysis of these Reports, especially the comprehensive 1969-70 Report which was the most recent available when this paper was
