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By : Anthony Reid
Book Synopsis :
The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance of the fact that Indonesia entered the modern community of nation-states through political revolution. This revolution has often been denied or downplayed as a failure because it did not have a communist outcome like those of China and Vietnam. A much better analogy is the French revolution - a profound breaking with and discrediting of the ancien regime but without the guiding hand of a disciplined party intent on power. Like other revolutions, it demanded a huge price in violence, human suffering, and the loss of cultural traditions; like them too, it offered a glittering prize. The prize turned out not to be the freedom and equality of which the revolutionaries had dreamt, but a previously inconceivable unity enforced by a state of a completely new kind. The .
Book Detail :
Tittle : To Nation By Revolution: Indonesia in the 20th Century
Author : Anthony Reid
Pages : 360 pages
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Language : en-GB
ISBN-10 : 9971695359
ISBN-13 : 9789971695354
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