The Russian Journal of Vietnamese StudiesThe Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies2618-9453Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the RAS8699310.24411/2618-9453-2019-10015Research ArticleGazing into the past: on the 40th anniversary of the toppling of the Khmer Rouge regime in CambodiaBektimirovaNadezda N.D.Sc. (History), Professor, Chair of the Far East and SEA history Department, the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State Universitynabektimirova@yandex.ruLomonosov Moscow State University1506201932556505112021Copyright © 2019, Bektimirova N.N.2019The article discusses the events of January 1979 in Cambodia which led to the toppling of the Khmer Rouge and the establishment of a political regime loyal to Vietnam. The author shows that aggressive anti-Vietnamese policies pursued by the Khmer Rouge regime created an acute security threat for the neighboring country. The inability to settle bilateral relations peacefully compelled Vietnam to solve the problem by using force. The article considers both positive and negative consequences of the Vietnamese military invasion in Cambodia. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of ongoing intense debates among political elites about the role of the Vietnamese factor during that period of Cambodian history.CambodiaKhmer Rouge regimeVietnamese military invasionCambodian problemКамбоджарежим «красных кхмеров»вьетнамское военное вторжение«камбоджийская проблема»[Ан Буннарыен. Становление и развитие системы СМИ в Камбодже (1954-1994 гг.). Дис.. канд. ист. наук. М., 1995. 168 с.][Бектимирова Н.Н. Этническая мифология как фактор политической мобилизации кхмеров в XX в. // Межэтнические и межконфессиональные отношения в Юго-Восточной Азии. М.: ИД Ключ-С, 2011. 357 с.][Бектимирова Н.Н., Селиванов И.Н. Королевство Камбоджа: Политическая история. М.: Гуманитарий, 2002. 350 с.][Мосяков Д.В. История Камбоджи XX век. М.: ИВ РАН, 2010. 739 с.][Отчетный доклад генсека ЦК НРПК Хенг Самрина на V съезде НРПК // Неак Кхусана (на кхмерском языке). Пномпень, 1985. № 1.][6. Cambodia Daily.][Cambodia: How Viable the Heng Samrin Regime? An Intelligence Assessment. URL: https:// www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00794R000200740001-6.pdf (дата обращения: 15.01.2019).][Chandler D. Brother number one. A Political Biography of Pol Pot. Westview Press, 1999. 260 p.][Court Documents N 415/3/2. Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. URL: https:// www.eccc.gov.kh (дата обращения: 12.12.2018).][Future Forum. Moving Beyond the January 7 Narratives. Briefing Note 06.01.2017. URL: https:// www.futureforum.asia.][Gottesman E. Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: inside the politics of nation building. New Haven & London, 2003. 428 p.][Kamm H. Cambodia. Report from a Stricken Land. New York, 1998. 262 p.][Nhem Boraden. The Khmer Rouge. Ideology, Militarism, and the Revolution That Consumed a Generation. Praeger, 2013. 216 p.][14. Phnom Penh Post.][Sam Raincy. URL: https://www.facebook.com/raincy.sam.5/ (дата обращения: 10.02.2016).][Samleng Pracheachon Kampuchea. Radio Network in Cambodia.][Thayer, C.A. Vietnam’s intervention in Cambodia Revisited, 1979-2019. Thayer Consultancy Background Brief. December 18, 2018.][Wijiers, G.D. Brokering, Bargaining and Building for the Transformation of Cambodia: A Study on Cambodian French Returnees as Institutional Entrepreneurs // Institutions andEconomies, 2013. Vol. 5. N 3.][Williams T. & Neilsen R. «They will rot the society, rot the party, and rot the army»: Toxification as an ideology and motivation for perpetrating violence in the Khmer Rouge genocide? // Terrorism and Political Violence, 14.10.2016.]