The crisis of genocide

Titel: The crisis of genocide / Mark Levene
Teil: 1. Devastation : the European rimlands ; 1912 - 1938
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Ausgabe: 1. ed.
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013
Umfang: XXII, 545 S. : Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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  • List of Maps
  • p. xi
  • Preface
  • p. xiii
  • A Brief Note on Languages and Transliteration
  • p. xxiii
  • Introduction: The Structural Underpinnings of European Genocide, 1912-1953
  • p. 1
  • By way of prologue
  • p. 1
  • Rimlands
  • p. 5
  • Strengths and weaknesses of this approach
  • p. 12
  • Setting our own agenda
  • p. 22
  • Part 1
  • Great War and Revolution
  • 1
  • The Great War: Site of Genocide or Signpost to its Future Enactment?
  • p. 35
  • Setting the scene
  • p. 35
  • Total war
  • p. 37
  • Empires and their rimland peoples
  • p. 42
  • The military as drivers of communal onslaught? The Russian Great Retreat
  • p. 50
  • Colonial revolt and retribution
  • p. 65
  • Collective paranoia in action: Belgium 1914
  • p. 72
  • Blaming the Jews
  • p. 77
  • 2
  • Armenian Genocide: Ottoman Catastrophes
  • p. 95
  • Setting the scene
  • p. 95
  • Genocides before the genocide: war in the Balkans, 1912-13
  • p. 99
  • CUP new thinking
  • p. 108
  • The struggle in the east
  • p. 121
  • War as catalyst
  • p. 131
  • A decision for genocide?
  • p. 140
  • The contours of mass murder
  • p. 152
  • Imperial dissolution and its violence
  • p. 166
  • 3
  • The First Crisis of the Rimlands
  • p. 172
  • Setting the scene
  • p. 172
  • Order versus disorder
  • p. 176
  • Renewed military onslaught against the Jews
  • p. 187
  • Two Russian-Vendées
  • p. 198
  • Anglo-French overreach in the east
  • p. 214
  • 'The unmixing of peoples': the road to and from Lausanne
  • p. 230
  • Part 2
  • Interregnum between Great Wars
  • p. 241
  • 4
  • The Lost Peace
  • p. 241
  • Setting the scene
  • p. 241
  • A world lost?
  • p. 244
  • A world restored?
  • p. 262
  • Genocidal 'business as usual': Kemalism versus the Kurds
  • p. 275
  • A sobering sequel: 'the Assyrian affair'
  • p. 293
  • 5
  • Anti-System One: The Emerging Stalin State
  • p. 300
  • Setting the scene
  • p. 300
  • The Stalin state: aspirations, limitations, incubi
  • p. 307
  • Smashing the internal "enemy: the war against 'the people'
  • p. 320
  • Smashing the external enemy: the war against the fifth column'
  • p. 345
  • 6
  • Anti-System Two: The Emerging Hitler State
  • p. 366
  • Setting the scene
  • p. 366
  • The legacy of 1918
  • p. 370
  • The Hitler phenomenon and German longing
  • p. 384
  • A regime and its 'enemies'
  • p. 392
  • Race in place of people
  • p. 403
  • The year 1938
  • p. 418
  • Notes
  • p. 429
  • Select Bibliography
  • p. 501
  • Index
  • p. 529