Final Solutions - Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century

Klappentext Final Solutions focuses on three types of mass killing: communist mass killings like the ones carried out in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia; ethnic genocides as in Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda; and "counter-guerrilla" campaigns including the brutal civil war in Guatemala and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Valentino closes the book by arguing that attempts to prevent mass killing should focus on disarming and removing from power the leaders and small groups responsible for instigating and organizing the killing. Zusammenfassung 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...

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• Authors: Benjamin A Valentino, Benjamin A. Valentino, VALENTINO BENJAMIN A
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2005
• EAN: 9780801472732
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7273-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs; Cornell Studies in Security Affairs; Cornell Studies in Security Af
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science