A century of genocide : utopias of race and nation / Eric D. Weitz
- Bib ID:
- 2217027
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- Author:
- Weitz, Eric D
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- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2003
- 360 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0691009139 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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"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?" "Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century - and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly.".
"This book offers some of the most absorbing accounts ever written of the population purges forever associated with the names Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Milosevic. A controversial and richly textured comparison of these four modern cases, it identifies the social and political forces that produce genocide."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- An Armenian Prelude
- Introduction: Genocides in the Twentieth Century
- Ch. 1. Race and Nation: An Intellectual History
- Ch. 2. Nation, Race, and State Socialism: The Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin
- Ch. 3. The Primacy of Race: Nazi Germany
- Ch. 4. Racial Communism: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
- Ch. 5. National Communism: Serbia and the Bosnian War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Genocide -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
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