Cambodian History 

Source: http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/khtoc.html
Cambodia: A Country Study. R R Ross (ed.) Federal Research Division, 1987
Accessed 30 July 2001

[Only those parts of the report are reproduced here that most directly linked with the period of Khmer Rouge rule, 1975-78] 

• THE FRENCH COLONIAL PERIOD, 1887-1953
  • The Colonial Economy
  • The Emergence of Nationalism
  • The Struggle for Independence
• CAMBODIA UNDER SIHANOUK, 1954-70
  • The Geneva Conference
  • Domestic Developments
  • Nonaligned Foreign Policy
  • The Cambodian Left: The Early Phases
  • The Paris Student Group
  • The KPRP Second Congress
• INTO THE MAELSTROM: INSURRECTION AND WAR, 1967-75
  • The March 1970 Coup d'Etat
  • The Widening War
  • Early Khmer Rouge Atrocities
  • The Fall of Phnom Penh
• DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA, 1975-78
  • Revolutionary Terror
  • Society under the Angkar
    • Religious and Minority Communities
    • Education and Health
    • The Economy
  • Politics under the Khmer Rouge
  • Establishing Democratic Kampuchea
  • An Elusive Party
    • Intraparty Conflict
    • The Purge
  • The Fall of Democratic Kampuchea

  Appendix B. Major Political and Military Organizations

  Bibliography (Chapter 1-i.e., all the above)