LEADER 03536nam 2200637 450 001 9910466924203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a981-4620-44-0 024 7 $a10.1355/9789814620444 035 $a(CKB)3780000000078730 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001497219 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11967896 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497219 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11490292 035 $a(PQKB)10757176 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789814620444 035 $a(OCoLC)910089643 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46688 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124046 035 $a(DE-B1597)491808 035 $a(OCoLC)1042002686 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789814620444 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5124046 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11464867 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000078730 100 $a20171206h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOriginal sin? $erevising the revisionist critique of the 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore /$fKumar Ramakrishna 210 1$aSingapore :$cInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 167 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a981-4620-43-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION. The "Alternate" Challenge to the Singapore Story as Context -- $t1. Government Sources: Who Uses Them, and the Alternates' Unarticulated Ideological Outlook -- $t2. Was there Really a Dangerous Communist United Front? -- $t3. The Curious Case of Lim Chin Siong -- $t4. Why "Was Operation Coldstore Driven by Political and Not Security Grounds?" is the Wrong Question -- $tConclusion: The Enduring Need for a Singapore Story 2.0 -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX -- $tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $a"Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the master narrative of the nation's political and socioeconomic development since its founding by the British in 1819. Much criticism focuses especially on one defining episode of the Story: the internal security dragnet mounted on 2 February 1963 against Communist United Front elements on the island, known to posterity as Operation Coldstore. The revisionists claim that Coldstore was mounted for political rather than security reasons and actually destroyed a legitimate Progressive Left opposition - personalized by the charismatic figure of Lim Chin Siong - rather than a dangerous Communist network as the conventional wisdom holds. Relying on both declassified and some previously unseen classified sources, this book challenges revisionist claims, reiterating the historic importance of Coldstore in helping pave the way for Singapore's remarkable journey from Third World status to First in a single generation. 606 $aDetention of persons$zSingapore 606 $aPolitical prisoners$zSingapore 607 $aSingapore$xPolitics and government$y1945-1963 607 $aSingapore$xHistory$y1963-1965 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDetention of persons 615 0$aPolitical prisoners 676 $a959.504 700 $aRamakrishna$b Kumar$0925559 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466924203321 996 $aOriginal sin$92443253 997 $aUNINA