A Century of Genocide : Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weitz, Eric D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Genocide.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Genocide > History > 20th century > Case studies.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface to the New Paperback Edition
  • An Armenian Prelude
  • Introduction .Genocides in the Twentieth Century
  • 1. Race and Nation: An Intellectual History
  • 2. Nation, Race, and State Socialism: The Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin
  • 3. The Primacy of Race: Nazi Germany
  • 4. Racial Communism: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
  • 5. National Communism: Serbia and the Bosnian War
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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