Annihilation

This extremely ambitious work provides a very knowledgeable and enormously broad survey of violence in large parts of Europe and southwest Asia from the 1910s to the early 1950s.

Auteur
Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton, and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish / non-Jewish Relations. His writing ranges from Jewish history to genocide and anthropogenic climate change, including, most recently History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (co-edited with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts, 2010). He is founder of Rescue! History, and co-founder of the Crisis Forum. The two volumes of Crisis of Genocide continue a multi-volume project - begun with The Meaning of Genocide and The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (2005) - to chart the history of genocide in the age of the nation-state.

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Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1939 to 1952, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its aftermath, the Holocaust and it's lasting impact, and the latter part of the Stalinist regime, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history.

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• Introduction

• Part One: Renewed European Cataclysm

• 1: The Second Crisis of the Rimlands

• 2: The Nazi Wars of Jewish - and Roma - Extermination

• 3: Other Europeans and the Destruction of the Jews

• 4: Wars of All against All

• Part Two: Post-war 'Pacifications'

• 5: Stalinist Reordering: Russian Peace

• 6: An Expurgated Rimlands

• Appendix: Major Incidents of Genocide and Sub-Genocidal Violence: Rimlands and Near-Regions, 1912-1953

• Select Bibliography

• Index