Cambodian reconstruction after 1979
A Cambodian leader who broke with the Khmer Rouge and cooperated with Vietnam. He led the People’s Republic of Kampuchea after the 1979 regime change. Reconstruction combined state, cooperative and household activity while war and international disputes over representation continued.
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A Cambodian leader who broke with the Khmer Rouge and cooperated with Vietnam. He led the People’s Republic of Kampuchea after the 1979 regime change. Reconstruction combined state, cooperative and household activity while war and international disputes over representation continued.
Khmer Rouge collective farming operated alongside forced displacement, food controls, executions and persecution. Heng Samrin’s government combined state, cooperative and household activity with Vietnamese and Soviet-bloc support. Treating them as one uninterrupted agrarian model obscures these differences.