Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust Hardcover - 1992
by Robert Melson
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Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Jews in Imperial Germany had survived as ethnic and religious minorities until they suffered mass destruction when the two old regimes were engulfed by revolution and war. Was there a connection between revolution and genocide in those two instances, and is there a relationship between revolution and genocide in general? In this detailed comparative history, Robert Melson elaborates a distinctive conceptual framework that links genocide to revolution and war. He suggests that some instances of genocide are products of a complex process started by the collapse of old regimes and carried forward by revolutionaries who wish to reconstruct society according to new ideological visions. The Young Turks and the Nazis, able to come to power after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and Imperial Germany, were motivated by Pan-Turkism, on the one hand, and racialist antisemitism, on the other. Desiring to create a Turkish empire free of Armenians and a Third Reich empty of Jews, the two revolutionary movements proceeded to commit genocide on a wide scale. Melson discusses the destruction of the Kulaks in the Soviet Union and the "autogenocide" in Cambodia as comparable situations where total domestic genocide followed on the heels of the Russian and Cambodian revolutions. Moreover, he warns that sweeping changes such as those occurring in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe can also be precursors to massive violence, including genocide.
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- Title Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
- Author Robert Melson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 386
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 1992
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780226519906 / 0226519902
- Weight 1.62 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.33 x 1.25 in (23.47 x 16.08 x 3.18 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91047944
- Dewey Decimal Code 956.620
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