LEADER 03533nam 22006012 450 001 9910795916803321 005 20170607133644.0 010 $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 $a20161007d2015|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOriginal sin? $erevising the revisionist critique of the 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore /$fKumar Ramakrishna$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aSingapore :$cInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 167 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). 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 $aRevisionist' 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$y1963-1965 615 0$aDetention of persons 615 0$aPolitical prisoners 676 $a959.5705 700 $aRamakrishna$b Kumar$01103099 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795916803321 996 $aOriginal sin$93793445 997 $aUNINA