Marc H. Opper
Marc H. Opper is an independent scholar based in Virginia in the United States. He is the author of People’s Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam (2019) and has published articles in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Twentieth-Century China and Zuyin jianxun [Footprints Bulletin]. He is currently working on a book-length biography of Lai Teck, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) from 1939 to 1947, tentatively titled Counter/revolutionary Hero: Lai Teck and the Communist Revolution in Southeast Asia.
Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia »
Edited by: Matthew Galway, Marc H. Opper
Publication date: September 2022
One of the most contentious theatres of the global conflict between capitalism and communism was Southeast Asia. From the 1920s until the end of the Cold War, the region was racked by international and internal wars that claimed the lives of millions and fundamentally altered societies in the region for generations. Most of the 11 countries that compose Southeast Asia were host to the development of sizable communist parties that actively (and…