The modernity of genocides: War, race, and revolution in the twentieth century

The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 53-74

  Weitz, Eric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511819674.003     Document Type: Chapter

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