TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiss-Wendt,Anton
AU  - Irvin-Erickson,Douglas
TI  - A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War 
T2  - Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
SN  - 9780813594651
U1  - 345/.0251 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Genocide (International law)
KW  - Genocide intervention
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Communist
KW  - Genocide Convention
KW  - Raphael Lemkin
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Soviet genocide
KW  - Soviet-American
KW  - US
KW  - USSR
KW  - genocide
KW  - human rights
KW  - international
KW  - politics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; 1. Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War --; 2. Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned --; 3. Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia --; 4. The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq --; 5. Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia --; 6. (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention --; 7. Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement --; 8. Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia --; 9. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict --; 10. An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty --; Conclusion --; Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War --; Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948-1988 --; Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948-1988 --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics? A Rhetorical Crime shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action
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