Final Solutions : : Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century /

Final Solutions : : Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century / / Benjamin A. Valentino.

Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small gro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Valentino, Benjamin A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 7 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Mass Killing in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
  • 1. Mass Killing and Genocide
  • 2. The Perpetrators and the Public
  • 3. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing
  • 4. Communist Mass Killings: The Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia
  • 5. Ethnic Mass Killings: Turkish Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda
  • 6. Counterguerrilla Mass Killings: Guatemala and Afghanistan
  • Conclusion: Anticipating and Preventing Mass Killing
  • Notes
  • Index

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