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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Geoffrey Robinson, 2018)
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Robinson, 2018)
Geoffrey Robinson's 2018 synthesis of the 1965-66 violence (about 500,000 killed, a million detained), arguing the army provoked and organised it, the US and allies facilitated it, and colonial and Cold War history set the preconditions. Context; Gerwani in the propaganda chapters.
Sintesis Geoffrey Robinson 2018 tentang kekerasan 1965-66 (sekitar 500.000 terbunuh, sejuta ditahan), berargumen tentara memicu dan mengorganisasi, AS dan sekutu memfasilitasi, dan sejarah kolonial serta Perang Dingin menyiapkan prasyarat. Konteks; Gerwani muncul di bab propaganda.
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- Date
- 2018
- Creator
- Robinson
- Document type
- book (scholarly monograph (history; genocide and human-rights studies), Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity series)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- De Gruyter Brill (Princeton UP) via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Downloaded 2026-10-15 via Nath’s Chrome (see “Download Log 2026-10-15.csv”); copyrighted Princeton University Press monograph (All Rights Reserved) – library or publisher-licensed copy, not open access; for research use only. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Robinson, G. B. (2018). The killing season: A history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965–66. Princeton University Press.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Robinson (2018) - The Killing Season, A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.921) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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