Soviet strategies in Southeast Asia: An Exploration of Eastern Policy under Lenin and Stalin

by Charles B. McLane

This study's main concern is with the growth of Communism within Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia, Indochina, and the Philippines. The author explores the origin and fate of these indigenous movements, their role in domestic politics and relationship to the metropolitan parties (in the case of colonial dependencies) and to the Soviet Union, and their success or failure under the conditions of independence. He also assesses the influence of Communist experience in China, the formation of Russian policy in Southeast Asia, and the policies of the domestic Communist parties.

Originally published in 1966.

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582 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1966

Reviews

[Monkey D Dragon · Rating 5 out of 5]

The exploration of this book on the topic of how Soviet strategists in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, gave me meaningful insight about the connection between every communist party's work in every country and the attention the Soviets gave It becomes an advantage on one side but a failure on the other. It became an advantage because every communist party could make a collaboration with another party and learn from them too, especially because in Southeast Asia, political movements are still premature, but on the other side, they became failures because of the differences in problems in every country. and because of that, Uni Soviet or another communist party can't answer or give much guidance to communist parties in the colonial world, especially in Southeast Asia.