Revolutionary genocide: on the causes of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust
TitleRevolutionary genocide: on the causes of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust
Call number940.5318/0149
Object number05247CE
Place of publicationOxford, England
PublisherPergamon Press
Year of publication
1989
Physical descriptionVol.2 pp2038-2047
MaterialArticle
ISBN80367542
NotesPapers from "Remembering for the Future:papers and addenda" pp2038-2047
Description
What are the connections, if any, between revolution and genocide? And what parallels can we draw between the Holocaust and the Young Turks' massacre of Armenians in World War I? In both cases, the fact that the respective minorities were excluded from the new dispensation by their very identity sentenced them to death. Both occurrences took place in wartime. That does not mean all revolutions lead to genocide but, in these two instances, wartime did facilitate genocide as state policy.