Red Brotherhood at War - by Grant Evans & Kelvin Rowley (Paperback)

About the Book

The most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina.

Book Synopsis

This fully updated edition of Red Brotherhood at War - the most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina - explains why communist victory did not usher in a period of peace based on proletarian internationalism. While victorious revolutionaries in Vietnam and Laos strengthened their special relationship, Vietnam's relations with fraternal Cambodia and China deteriorated into full-scale war. The Vietnamese overthrow of Pol Pot's regime in 1979 was condemned by the West, which joined with China to support the Khmer Rouge-dominated anti-Vietnamese resistance in Cambodia. An inter-communist war thus became one of the focal points of the New Cold War in the 1980s.

This complex and paradoxical tangle of events is skilfully analysed by Evans and Rowley in their frank and lively book. Drawing on a wide range of sources and first-hand research, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to chart the interaction between Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and the changing configuration of regional and great-power politics up to the present day.

Review Quotes

"Deals with a critical period in contemporary Southeast Asian affairs ... a well-reasoned argument against the Cold War myth of a monolithic communism."--Asiaweek

"A level-headed, well-informed and lucid account."--Fred Halliday, New Society

"A substantial, well-documented account of the 'Third Indochina War'"--AfricAsia

About the Author

Grant Evans lectures in the School of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong, and is the author of The Yellow Rainmakers and co-author of Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1975.

Kelvin Rowley is Senior Lecturer of Social and Political Studies at Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne.