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Why genocide? : the Armenian and Jewish experiences in perspective

Title: Why genocide? : the Armenian and Jewish experiences in perspective / Florence Mazian.
Author: Mazian, Florence, 1942-
Publication: Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1990.

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Description

xiii, 291 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A comparative sociological analysis of the Turkish massacre of the Armenians and the Nazi Holocaust, using Neil Smelser's theory of collective behavior. Among the mechanisms enabling genocide, points to the creation of "outsiders" (i.e. exclusion by legal measures and creation of a scapegoat image); the destructive use of communications; the presence of a powerful leadership with territorial ambitions; the organization of destruction; and the failure of social control. Ch. 12 (pp. 215-235) surveys external and internal factors which facilitated the implementation of the Holocaust: the involvement of state agencies, the passivity of the Church and the outside world, and the failure of internal control in the Jewish community.

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-281) and index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-281) and index.

ISBN

0813801435
9780813801438

LCCN

89015268

OCLC

ocm19886146
19886146
SCSB-1909640

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Princeton University Library