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The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), [a] also known as the Khmer Communist Party, [5] was a far-left communist party in Cambodia. Its leader was Pol Pot, and its members were generally known as the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer).
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- People's Republic of Kampuchea
The PRK/SOC existed as a communist state from 1979 until...
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In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge was largely supported and funded by the Chinese Communist Party, receiving approval from Mao Zedong; it is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid which was provided to the Khmer Rouge came from China.
The PRK/SOC existed as a communist state from 1979 until 1991, the year in which the ruling single party abandoned its Marxist–Leninist ideology. Under Vietnamese control, the PRK was established in the wake of the total destruction of the country's institutions, infrastructure and intelligentsia wreaked by Khmer Rouge rule.
Cambodia’s communist movement originated in the Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party, which was formed in 1951 under the auspices of the Viet Minh of Vietnam. The party’s largely French-educated Marxist leaders eventually renamed it the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. The CPK created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled the country until January 1979.
Aug 24, 2024 · Khmer Rouge, radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 after winning power through a guerrilla war. It was purportedly set up in 1967 as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
Sep 12, 2017 · The Khmer Rouge was a Cambodian communist military group that took power under the leadership of Pol Pot and ignited the Cambodian Genocide in the late 1970s.
