The crisis of genocide

• List of Maps
• p. xi

• A Brief Note on Languages and Transliteration
• p. xiii

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Part 1
• Renewed European Cataclysm

• 1
• The Second Crisis of the Rimlands
• p. 9

• Setting the scene
• p. 9

• National politics, geopolitics, and the growing incidence of rimlands' violence
• p. 12

• Liquidating Poland
• p. 24

• Experiments in population reordering
• p. 45

• Agents of destruction
• p. 55

• The insoluble problem: getting rid of the Jews
• p. 66

• 2
• The Nazi Wars of Jewish-and Roma-Extermination
• p. 76

• Setting the scene
• p. 76

• Balkan prelude
• p. 81

• A conscious if limited genocide by way of Operation Barbarossa
• p. 86

• The shift to total genocide
• p. 98

• Genocide as 'system'
• p. 114

• The Roma: an additional complication?
• p. 132

• Denouement by way of geopolitics
• p. 139

• 3
• Other Europeans and the Destruction of the Jews
• p. 152

• Setting the scene
• p. 152

• Tolerable Jews and irredeemable Jews
• p. 156

• Collaborationist states with ambivalent records
• p. 162

• The Balkan arena-exterminators and protectors
• p. 178

• Non-German perpetrators in the Nazi-occupied rimlands
• p. 184

• A state which killed-Rumania
• p. 206

• Hungary: from collaborative genocide to last-ditch autonomous massacre
• p. 221

• 4
• Wars of All against All
• p. 234

• Setting the scene
• p. 234

• A clash of titans: the Soviet-German War and its genocidal potential
• p. 240

• The war in the rear
• p. 246

• The war in the middle (1): the 1941-5 struggle for the Yugoslav succession
• p. 267

• The war in the middle (2): the Ukrainian-Polish War
• p. 290

• Part 2
• Post-War 'Pacifications'

• 5
• Stalinist Reordering: Russian Peace
• p. 303

• Setting the scene
• p. 303

• The deportadon of the 'Punished Peoples' and the fear of Russia's past
• p. 310

• Consolidating Russia's rimlands
• p. 330

• The Jews: Russia's last communal enemy?
• p. 344

• 6
• An Expurgated Rimlands
• p. 361

• Setting the scene
• p. 361

• What happened: the scope, scale, and range of expulsion and mass murder
• p. 367

• The view from the national protagonists: players on the ground, makers of policy
• p. 380

• The macro picture: the geopolitics of the expulsions
• p. 390

• Lemkinian consequences
• p. 397

• A new direction of travel?
• p. 405

• Appendix: Major Incidents of Genocide and Sub-Genocidal Violence: Rimlands and Near-Regions, 1912-53
• p. 415

• Notes
• p. 420

• Select Bibliography
• p. 491

• Index
• p. 515