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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Near Fine. Date: 2003. Paperback. 0773526420 . First paperback edition. Light crease to rear cover, else about fine in illustrated wraps. . 2003. McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0773526420 US

Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2003 Paperback As New 306p. A softcover book in fine condition. A study of human rights violations by governments against their own citizens, from the Ottoman Empire to the USSR.

ISBN10: 0773526420, ISBN13: 9780773526426, [publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal] Softcover 306p. A softcover book in fine condition. A study of human rights violations by governments against their own citizens, from the Ottoman Empire to the USSR.
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McGill-Queen's University Press, Date: 2003-11-10. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2003. McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0773526420 9780773526426 [US]

ISBN10: 0773526420, ISBN13: 9780773526426, [publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal] Softcover Paperback. "Reigns of Terror" is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whether these states have anything in common - whether there are preconditions that can be identified as leading to crimes against humanity so that the world community could take preventive action in similar situations elsewhere. She provides short histories of nine culturally and historically diverse societies where such crimes occurred during the 20th century, including the Ottoman Empire in Armenia, the USSR in the Eastern Ukraine, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Burundi, Rwanda, Argentina, Chile, and Yugoslavia. Marchak departs significantly from mainstream explanations of genocide, rejecting racism as a fundamental cause and disputing a wide range of other explanations that cite racist and religious ideologies, perception of threat, authoritarianism, and unique historical circumstances as primary causes. She argues that while these variables may be contributing factors, states move toward human rights crimes because their governments can no longer sustain a particular social hierarchy. Reasons for their paralysis may be economic, environmental, demographic, or purely political. In an attempt to re-establish the former status quo, they turn against groups low on the hierarchical ...