A century of genocide utopias of race and nation /
Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented? Blendin...
| Main Author: | Weitz, Eric D. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2003]
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| Physical Description: |
360 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- An Armenian prelude
- Introduction: genocides in the twentieth century
- Race and nation: an intellectual history
- Nation, race, and state socialism: the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin
- The primacy of race: Nazi Germany
- Racial communism: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
- National communism: Serbia and the Bosnian War
- Conclusion.