Final solutions : mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century / Benjamin A. Valentino.
"Final Solutions focuses on three types of mass killings: 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 "counterguerilla" campaigns including the brutal civil war in Guatemala a...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
[2004]
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Series: | Cornell studies in security affairs.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mass Killing in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
- 1. Mass Killing and Genocide
- 2. The Perpetrators and the Public
- 3. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing
- 4. Communist Mass Killings: The Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia
- 5. Ethnic Mass Killings: Turkish Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda
- 6. Counterguerilla Mass Killings: Guatemala and Afghanistan
- Conclusion: Anticipating and Preventing Mass Killing.