Genocide from the advent of communism to the end of the twentieth century : history and comparative analysis / Arthur Grenke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Case Studies Science, Faith, and Mass Destruction: Introduction; Chapter One Mass Destruction and Building the Communist Utopia in the Soviet Union; Chapter Two: Nazi War and Revolution; Chater Three Establishing the Marxist Utopia in China and Mass Destruction; Chapter Four Urban Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, and Mass Destruction in Cambodia; Chapter Five Communist and Nazi Mass Destructions -- Similarities and Differences; Case Studies Decolonization, Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Destruction: Intorduction.

This second book on genocide by Arthur Grenke marks an important change in the forces contributing to genocide. Prior to the Russian Revolution acts of genocide were usually committed on the conquered by the conquerors. However, after 1917 the Soviets and later the Nazis initiated programs of mass genocide and set the framework for later genocides that followed during the late 20th century. Victims of genocide were often designated as targets to be destroyed for political, ethnic, religious, and pseudo-scientific reasons. By eliminating the perceived internal threat, those who committed genoci.

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