'Voice of the Malayan revolution' : the communist party Malaya's struggle for hearts and minds in the second Malayan emergency (1969-1975).

This dissertation is the inaugural attempt at the examination, interpretation and analysis of the Communist Party of Malaya's (CPM) first serious endeavour at Strategic Propaganda; The Voice of the Malayan Revolution (VMR). Accessing the VMR transmission transcripts for the very first time, the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ong, Weichong.
Other Authors: Kumar Ramakrishna
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14399
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Description
Summary:This dissertation is the inaugural attempt at the examination, interpretation and analysis of the Communist Party of Malaya's (CPM) first serious endeavour at Strategic Propaganda; The Voice of the Malayan Revolution (VMR). Accessing the VMR transmission transcripts for the very first time, the objective of this study is to examine, interpret and analyze the CPM's most sophisticated attempt at mass ideological conversion and relate it to the revolutionary struggle of the Malayan Communists. As a corollary, this study will establish that the methods and nature of Revolutionary Psywar are very different from those practiced by Western democracies.