Genocide : the power and problems of a concept / edited by Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn.

"Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth, but that expansion has also compounded the tensions between a rigid legal concept and the manifo...

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Other Authors:Graziosi, Andrea (Author)
Sysyn, Frank E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents
Somebody Else’s Crime: The Drafting of the Genocide Convention as a Cold War Battle, 1946-48 / Anton Weiss-Wendt
The Costs of Silencing Holocaust Victims: Why We Must Add Sexual Violence to Our Definition of Genocide / Annette F. Timm
Frames and Narratives: How the Fates of the Ottoman Armenians, Stalin-Era Ukrainians, and Kazakhs Illuminate the Concept of Genocide / Ronald Grigor Suny
The Holodomor in the Context of Soviet Mass Killing in the 1930s / Norman M. Naimark
The Kazakh Famine, the Holodomor, and the Soviet Famines of 1930-33: Starvation and National Un-building in the Soviet Union / Andrea Graziosi
The “Lemkin Turn” in Ukrainian Studies: Genocide, Peoples, Nations, and Empire / Douglas Irvin-Erickson
The Orchestrated Inapplicability of the Law of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide--une exception française? / Caroline Fournet
Is It Time to Forget Genocide? Conceptual Problems and New Directions / Michelle Tusan
The Limits of a Genocide Lens and Possible Alternatives / Scott Straus