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Fires of hatred : ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe / Norman M. Naimark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naimark, Norman M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political atrocities.
- Racism.
- History.
- Europe--Ethnic relations.
- Europe.
- Ethnic relations.
- Racism--Europe--History--20th century.
- Population transfers.
- Political atrocities--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- A distinguished historian of Europe and Russia provides an insightful and heartbreaking history of ethnic cleansing and its relationship to genocide and population transfer. Focusing on five specific cases, he shows that as racism and religious hatreds pick up an ethnic name tag, war provides a cover for violence and mayhem, an evil tapestry behind which nations act with impunity. 12 halftones.
- Contents:
- The Armenians and Greeks of Anatolia
- The Nazi attack on the Jews
- Soviet deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars
- The expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia
- The wars of Yugoslav succession.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674003136
- OCLC:
- 44550545
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