Ruth McVey
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Ruth Thomas McVey (born October 22, 1930)[1] is an American scholar of Indonesia and Southeast Asia known especially for her writings on Communism and the Indonesian Communist Party.[2] With Benedict Anderson, she co-wrote the Cornell Paper, a 1966 work which examined the failed September 30 Movement in Indonesia. She has written and edited a number of books about Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics, including The rise of Indonesian communism (1965) and The Soviet view of the Indonesian revolution (1969).