Talk:Siamese coup d'état of 1932
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[edit] Coup d'état or Revolution?
Should we not call this 'Siamese Revolution of 1932'? My understanding is that a coup is a mere change in the head of government, while a revolution is a more radical change in the type of government, in this case from absolute monarchy to "democracy" (more accurately: constitutional monarchy with underlying oligarchy, then military dictatorship, alternate with periods of democracy -- but it was still a change in the government type). --Jakris 17:35, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- No, I think coup is the correct term. A revolution would have to be more widespread and result in fundamental changes in the economic order, which the Siam coup did not, despite Pridi's best efforts. Read the wiki article on Coup d'etat and you'll see it applies in several places.
- I'm a little more concerned that the last paragraph indicates that there may be some conflicting political opinions about the 1932 Coup, yet contrary opinions are not indicated in the main body. Jberkus 05:58, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
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Took out the codswallop about the ghost near the bridge.
[edit] Party name
I think this word might be the misunderstanding in Thai vocab. As a Thai, I' ve never heard the word "Khana Ratsadorn" before. The words, "ราษฎร์" and "ราษฎร" are the same meaning as "People."
- General meaning of "people" is ราษฎร (Ratsadorn or Rasadon)
- For the name of groups or roads, they always use ราษฎร์ (Rat or Ras) which is the same meaning.
So I remove this part out.
The people behind the coup called themselves the People's Party ("Khana Ratsadorn" - คณะราษฎร; the Party is more commonly and mistakenly called "Khana Rat" - คณะราษฎร์).
[edit] Where is this article from?
This article doesn't read like a Wikipedia article - it reads like an essay or a chapter from a book. It also doesn't list its references. I'm assuming good faith, but must ask the editors to double check their sources, and if need be, re-write the contents of the article in such a way that respects the copyrights of any original works. Patiwat 19:03, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Non-violent revolution?
Recently I wrote Thai coup on 1932 in ja: and then found this coup caused only one who had injured. His Official name is Phraya Sena-Songkhram or Momrajawongse I Nobawongse who is a son of a grandchildren of Monkut and was a commander of division 1 of Royal Thai Army when the coup take place. I know this information from the book, "People of Modern Asia 6 - Pibun" published by Iwanami Shoten and written by Dr. Murashima Eiji. I think this book is reliable since he mentions cremation books and memoirs of the member of People's party, and other official archives, as references. Anyway this book is written in Japanese and may not be verified by most of w:en: readers. Thus I show the [1] and [2] for readers' verification.--Anan 15:18, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
