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A Century of Genocide Eric D. Weitz

A Century of Genocide By Eric D. Weitz

A Century of Genocide by Eric D. Weitz

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Through the 20th century genocides have come to stand at the centre of a contemporary cultural crisis, argues this book. It examines Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Cambodia and Yugoslavia, to reveal the common features of modern mass murder, in context.

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A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation by Eric D. Weitz

In a blend of gripping narrative and 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.

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"Weitz has produced something exceedingly rare: a scholarly book one cannot put down. This is a meritorious, thoughtful book." - Choice "Despite its analytical and reasoned approach, this work cannot be read without feeling outrage, despair and horror. Weitz's work raises profound questions about the human capacity for violence." - Publishers Weekly "[A]n important, thought-provoking book on an inordinately complex subject." - Gavriel Rosenfeld, New Leader "[A] courageous [project]... [that] will serve as an excellent first introduction to Lenin and Stalin's crimes, the Holocaust, the Cambodian massacres of the 1970s and the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia." - Brendan Simms, Times Higher Education Supplement "Weitz makes a persuasive case that these genocides were not simply anarchic eruptions of age-old hatreds, but rather were engineered by crisis-ridden regimes promoting utopian visions requiring a radical refashioning of the population." - Martin F. Farrell, Perspectives on Political Science"

About Eric D. Weitz

Eric D. Weitz is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and directs the Center for German and European Studies. He is the author of Creating German Communism, 1890 - 1990 (Princeton).

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GOR001567775
9780691009131
0691009139
A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation by Eric D. Weitz
Eric D. Weitz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Princeton University Press
2003-03-23
368
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