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Java in a Time of Revolution : occupation and resistance, 1944-1946
This book by Benedict Anderson significantly broadens the foundation provided by the rare in-depth treatments. His inten- sive and detailed analysis of the genesis of the Indonesian revolu- tion discloses important characteristics which are not evident in accounts of other modern revolutions. In carrying our under- standing of the formative period of the Indonesian revolution much further than any previous author he shows how its socio- political pattern departs considerably from those of other modern revolutions, and that its outbreak cannot be satisfactorily ex- plained through conventional Marxian analysis, or in terms of either an alienation of the intelligentsia or a frustration of rising expectations. The central thrust of revolutionary power in the critical generative stage of the struggle for independence, he makes clear, lay primarily, and indeed to a decisive degree, with Indonesian youth.
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