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050 0 0 _aHV6322
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100 1 _aWeitz, Eric D.
_916912
245 1 2 _aCentury of genocide : utopias of race and nation
_butopias of race and nation /
_cEric D. Weitz.
260 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c2003.
300 _a360 pages ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index.
505 0 0 _tAbbreviations --
_tAn Armenian prelude --
_tIntroduction : genocides in the twentieth century --
_gch. 1.
_tRace and nation : an intellectual history --
_gch. 2.
_tNation, race, and state socialism : the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin --
_gch. 3.
_tThe primacy of race : Nazi Germany --
_gch. 4.
_tRacial communism : Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge --
_gch. 5.
_tNational communism : Serbia and the Bosnian War --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex.
520 _aWhy 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. Weitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide and traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. He demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense crisis, these states targeted certain national and racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of these "enemies" would enable the dominant group to flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors. 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.
648 4 _aGeschichte 1900-2000.
_916913
648 7 _a1900 - 1999
_2fast
_916914
650 0 _aGenocide
_xHistory
_y20th century
_vCase studies.
_916915
650 0 4 _aGenocide.
_916916
650 0 4 _aNationalisme.
_916917
650 0 4 _aRassendiscriminatie.
_916918
650 6 _aGénocide
_xHistoire
_y20e siècle
_vCas, Études de.
_916919
650 7 _aGenocide.
_2fast
_916920
650 1 7 _aGenocide.
_2gtt
_916921
650 1 7 _a.
_916922
650 0 7 _aConcentration camps
_916923
650 7 _aCamps de concentration
_zURSS.
_2ram
_916924
650 7 _aShoah.
_2ram
_916925
650 7 _aGuerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie (1991-1995)
_2ram
_916926
650 7 _aRacisme.
_2ram
_916927
650 7 _aGénocide arménien (1915-1916)
_2ram
_916928
650 7 _aGénocide
_y20e siècle.
_2ram
_916929
651 7 _aURSS
_xPolitique et gouvernement
_y1917-1953.
_2ram
_916930
651 7 _aCambodge
_y1979-1993.
_2ram
_916931
655 7 _aCase studies.
_2fast
_916932
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_916933
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d5a2-aa
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f0p1-aa
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/2002030264.html
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