Communism, Cold War, and Revolution

During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million alleged communists killed.

Whilst a growing body of scholarship has analysed the anti-communist violence of 1965-6, much less has been written abo...