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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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