A Century of Genocide : : Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition / / Eric D. Weitz.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Updated edition with a New preface by the author
Language:English
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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