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Ruth Thomas McVey (born October 22, 1930)

September 30 Movement
in Indonesia. She has written and edited a number of books about Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics, including The rise of Indonesian communism (1965) and The Soviet view of the Indonesian revolution (1969).

Biography

McVey was born in

Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of Amsterdam.[4]

She studied

PhD dissertation at Cornell titled "The Comintern and the Rise of Indonesian Communism."[7] During that time she was also involved in the founding and operating of the journal Indonesia.[8]

In the fall of 1965, when the failed

Indonesian Communist Party and Anderson was banned from entering Indonesia.[9][10]

She later became increasingly disillusioned with the American role in the academic study of Southeast Asia and its focus on "development" in the context of the Cold War; she left Cornell for the SOAS University of London in 1969 due to her opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.[5][11][12] She has since relocated to Montisi, Italy, where she lives on an Olive oil farm.[13]

Selected publications

  • Bibliography of Soviet Publications on Southeast Asia (1959)
  • The rise of Indonesian communism (1965)[14]
  • Indonesia (1967, as editor)[15]
  • The Soviet view of the Indonesian revolution: a study in the Russian attitude towards Asian nationalism (1969)[16]
  • The social roots of Indonesian communism (1970)[17]
  • Southeast Asian capitalists (1992, as editor)[18]
  • Redesiging the Cosmos: Belief Systems and State Power in Indonesia (1993)
  • Southeast Asia Studies: Reorientations (with Craig J. Reynolds, 1998)
  • Money & power in provincial Thailand (2000, as editor)[19]

References

  1. ^ McVey, John B. (7 May 2020). "Dr. Ruth Thomas McVey". Prominent People Tied to Hopkin Thomas. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Ruth T(homas) McVey.". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2001. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  3. ^ a b "BRYN MAWR GRADUATE". The Morning Call. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. 1952-06-05.
  4. ^ "Young Catasauqua Miss to Study on Fulbright Scholarship Abroad". The Morning Call. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. 1952-08-17.
  5. ^
    S2CID 73690272
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  6. JSTOR 3351227
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  7. OCLC 18769487
    . Retrieved 1 July 2021 – via WorldCat.
  8. JSTOR 10.5728/indonesia.100.0005
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  9. ^
    S2CID 165882795
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  10. ^
    JSTOR 3351389
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  11. JSTOR 10.5728/indonesia.100.0025
    .
  12. S2CID 163051503
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  13. ^ Marchant, Valerie (3 December 2000). "MONTISI, ITALY". Time. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  14. OCLC 265254
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  15. OCLC 1071149863
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  16. OCLC 2605322
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  17. OCLC 211446
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  18. OCLC 1037946794
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  19. OCLC 801412957
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