Burma in RevoltIn 1948 Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its Asian neighbors. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well documented and detailed account, journalist Bertil Lintner explains the connection between Burmas booming