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HISTORY. The Lao People’s Democratic Republic was founded on 2 Dec. 1975. Until that date Laos was a Kingdom, once called Lanxang (the land of a million elephants).
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Cordell, H., Laos. [Bibliography] Oxford and Santa Barbara, 1990
Stuart-Cox, M., Contemporary Laos. Univ. of Queensland Press, 1983.
—Laos: Politics, Economies and Society. London,1986
Zasloff, J. J., The Pathet Lao: Leadership and Organization. Lexington, Toronto and London. 1973
— and Unger, L. (eds.) Laos: Beyond the Revolution. London, 1991
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Hunter, B. (1991). Laos. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271203_94
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