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First-Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century

An Annotated Bibliography
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This bibliography includes English-language first-person accounts of individuals who survived or witnessed, as bystanders, journalists, diplomats, or liberators, genocidal acts in this century. The primary focus is on diaries, letter,s memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories, interviews and statements in newspaper articles or other texts. A secondary focus is on reports, films, microfilm collections, and archives that contain first-person accounts, essays about first-person accounts, and bibliographies that list first-person accounts. Although there are bibliography on genocide, this volume is the first to cover first-person accounts. The volume opens with a lengthy introductory essay on genocide. It then devotes chapters to specific genocidal acts, including German extermination of the Hereros, Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Soviet-induced famine in the Ukraine, the Soviet's "Great Purge", the Soviet deportation of whole nations, the Holocaust, Gypsies during the Holocaust, Indonesian genocide of Communists and suspected Communists, Ugandan genocides, Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh, Burundi genocide of the Hutus, Indonesian genocide in East Timor, the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, threatened genocide of the Baha'is, and genocide of various indigenous peoples. The chapters are subdivided by type of account, and all entries are annotated. The work includes subject and author indexes. The book aims to be a useful resource for historians, political scientists, and sociologists interested in genocide and international human relations.

Author Biography:

SAMUEL TOTTEN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is a member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem, Israel).
Release date Australia
August 26th, 1991
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Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
432
Dimensions
156x234x23
ISBN-13
9780313267130
Product ID
14254433

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