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Revolution and Genocide - On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust (Hardcover, New)
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Revolution and Genocide - On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust (Hardcover, New)
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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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