Revisionist" 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.
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