Studies in Comparative Genocide

1. Front Matter

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2. Approaches to Genocide

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. State Power and Genocidal Intent: On the Uses of Genocide in the Twentieth Century

      • Roger W. Smith

      Pages 3-14

   3. Science, Modernity and Authorized Terror: Reconsidering The Genocidal State

      • Irving L. Horowitz

      Pages 15-30

   4. Comparison of Genocides

      • Yehuda Bauer

      Pages 31-43

3. The Armenian Genocide

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. A Conceptual Method for Examining the Consequences of the Armenian Genocide

      • Rouben P. Adalian

      Pages 47-59

   3. Philosophy of State-Subject Relations, Ottoman Concepts of Tyranny, and the Demonization of Subjects: Conservative Ottomanism as a Source of Genocidal Behaviour, 1821–1918

      • James J. Reid

      Pages 60-91

   4. The Convergent Roles of the State and a Governmental Party in the Armenian Genocide

      • Vahakn N. Dadrian

      Pages 92-124

   5. The Genocide of the Armenians and the Silence of the Turks

      • Taner Akçam

      Pages 125-146

   6. Turkey: a Cultural Genocide

      • Anush Hovanissian

      Pages 147-154

4. Comparative Genocide, Genocide Denial and Genocide Prevention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Testing Theories Brutally: Armenia (1915), Bosnia (1992) and Rwanda (1994)

      • Helen Fein

      Pages 157-164

   3. Pol Pot and Enver Pasha: a Comparison of the Cambodian and Armenian Genocides

      • Ben Kiernan

      Pages 165-181

   4. The Ukrainian Famine of 1932–3: The Role of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Research and Public Discussion

      • Frank Sysyn

      Pages 182-215

   5. The Psychology and Politics of Genocide Denial: a Comparison of Four Case Studies

      • Henry R. Huttenbach

      Pages 216-229

   6. Breaking the Succession of Evil

      • Franklin H. Littell

      Pages 230-250

   7. Preventing Genocide: Activating Bystanders, Helping Victims Heal, Helping Groups Overcome Hostility

      • Ervin Staub

      Pages 251-260

5. Back Matter

   Pages 261-270

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Many of the world's leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the twentieth century. Featured authors include Irving Louis Horowitz, Helen Fein, Vahakn Dadrian, Roger W. Smith, Henry Huttenbach, Ervin Staub, and Turkish historian Taner Ak�. The volume covers the genocides of the Armenians, Ukrainians, Jews, Gypsies, Rwandans and Bosnians, and also topics of genocide denial and prevention.

• 1922
• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• Genocide
• history
• Ukraine

'...the book is a solid contribution to the literature of genocide. The collected articles provide an abundance of stimulating ideas that will serve as a source of inspiration...' - Dave Decker, California State University, Journal of Intercultural Studies

• University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

  Levon Chorbajian

• Toronto Public Library, York Office, Canada

  George Shirinian

ROUBEN P. ADALIAN Project Director of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C. TANER AKÇAM Research Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for the Social Sciences YEHUDA BAUER Permanent Academic Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem VAHAKN N. DADRIAN Director of a large genocide study project supported by the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation HELEN FEIN Executive Director of he Institute of Genocide and an Associate of the Froançois-Zavier Bagboud Institute for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard University School of Public Health IRVING L. HOROWITZ Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political science at Rutgers University ANOUSH HOVANISSIAN Researcher at the Institute for Near Eastern Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia HENRY R. HUTTENBACH Professor of Russian and East European History at the City College of New York BEN KIERNAN Associate Professor of History and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University FRANKLIN H. LITTELL Emeritus Professor of Religion at Temple University and Adjunct Professor at the institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem JAMES J. REID Senior Research Fellow at the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism in Rancho Cordova, California ROGER W. SMITH Professor of government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia ERVIN STAUB Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst FRANK E. SYSYN Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.

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