Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust

Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
ISBN-10
0226519910
ISBN-13
9780226519913
Category
History
Pages
363
Language
English
Published
1996-06
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Robert Melson

Description

In a study that compares the major attempts at genocide in world history, Robert Melson creates a sophisticated framework that links genocide to revolution and war. He focuses on the plights of Jews after the fall of Imperial Germany and of Armenians after the fall of the Ottoman as well as attempted genocides in the Soviet Union and Cambodia. He argues that genocide often is the end result of a complex process that starts when revolutionaries smash an old regime and, in its wake, try to construct a society that is pure according to ideological standards.

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