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in recent years there have been an increasing number of studies of the Indonesian Communist Party and of the Indonesian revolution, there has been relatively little attention paid specifically to the role of the party in the revolutionary period and its relationship during that period with the Soviet Union.
Furthermore, virtually no studies have been made of the perceptions of the Soviet Union of the character of the Indonesian revolution and the level of sophistication and understanding which its Indonesian specialists brought to the study of Indonesian affairs of this period.
We believe that with this Interim Report Ruth McVey has

made an important beginning in overcoming our ignorance of this most important subject, Her study makes a significant contribution both to our understanding of Indonesian Communism and of Soviet relations with Asian Communist parties in the critical period after World War II.
Fromto, Miss McVey undertook intensive research on Soviet materials available in the United States and Western Europe and on Dutch Communist and Indonesian Communist publications available in the Netherlands and at Cornell.
This study, first published in, is based on her analysis of these documents and covers the period,

About the Author

Miss McVey received her M, A. infrom the Harvard Soviet Area Program, Subsequently under the auspices of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project she carried on research for fifteen months in the Netherlands and England, and it was following this that she wrote this Interim Report.
After further graduate work at Cornell, Miss McVey was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship for additional research in the Netherlands and Indonesia, She received her Ph. D. from Cornell University in. Ruth T. McVey received her PhD infrom Cornell University in the Government Department and Southeast Asia Program, Her dissertation was entitled The Comintern and the Rise of Indonesian Communism, In, she received her MA at Harvard University, in the Soviet Area Program, Fromto, she was a reader in Politics with reference to Southeast Asia at the University of London, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Southeast Asian government and politics, and a postgraduate seminar on political ideology.
Teaching and tutoring in various general undergraduate politics subjects, especially comparative politics, Supervision of research students in Southeast Asian Politics and Southeast Asian History, Fromto, Ruth T. McVey received her PhD infrom Cornell University in the Government Department and Southeast Asia Program, Her dissertation was entitled 'The Comintern and the Rise of Indonesian Communism, ' In, she received her MA at Harvard University, in the Soviet Area Program, Fromto, she was a reader in Politics with reference to Southeast Asia at the University of London, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Southeast Asian government and politics, and a postgraduate seminar on political ideology.
Teaching and tutoring in various general undergraduate politics subjects, especially comparative politics, Supervision of research students in Southeast Asian Politics and Southeast Asian History, Fromto, she was a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, sitelink.