Rex Mortimer
Australian academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rex Alfred Mortimer was an Australian academic and expert on communism. Mortimer attended Melbourne High School and received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne in 1947. He became a member of the Communist Party of Australia at the university and remained active until 1969. He completed a doctorate dissertation on the Communist Party of Indonesia at Monash University in 1971 under the guidance of Herbert Feith. Mortimer went on to become a faculty member of the University of Sydney before dying of cancer at Royal North Shore Hospital on New Year's Eve 1979. Peter Singer cites his death as an assisted suicide case in Rethinking Life & Death, reporting that Mortimer died from sleeping pills that he had his wife smuggle to him in the hospital.
Rex Mortimer's Published Works
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- Development and dependency: The political economy of Papua New Guinea (1979) (66)
- Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno: Ideology and Politics, 1959-1965 (1974) (58)
- Class, Social Cleavage and Indonesian Communism (1969) (39)
- Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno. (1974) (32)
- Showcase state : the illusion of Indonesia's accelerated modernisation (1974) (25)
- Culture and politics in Indonesia (1972) (22)
- The Indonesian Communist Party & land reform, 1959-1965 (1972) (16)
- The Downfall of Indonesian Communism (1969) (6)
- Indonesia: Emigre post‐mortems on the PKI (1968) (5)
- BENEFITS OF LIBERAL EDUCATION (1976) (5)
- Student Action — Out of Nihilism (1970) (2)
- Unresolved problems of the Indonesian coup (1971) (2)
- Santamaria's nightmare: The N.C.C. faces the seventies (1971) (1)
- An American Junket: The 'Great Society' Retreats into Itself (1971) (0)
- Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon. By John Dunn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xiii, 346. $14.50.) (1974) (0)
- Australian Support for Indonesian Independence: A Review@@@Black Armada (1976) (0)
- Culture and Politics in Indonesia . Edited by Claire Holt. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. 348. $15.00.) (1976) (0)
- Books: Evatt the Enigma (1968) (0)
- Indonesia's Economic Prospects (1967) (0)
- Indonesia a Year After the Coup (1966) (0)
- Marxism and Asia (1970) (0)
- Discussion: John Sendy's article 'Democracy and the Communist Party' (1966) (0)
- Costa Rica: The 1948 Revolution. (1973) (0)
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