Texts marked with * can be bought in a Kompendium at Akademika bookshop.
Main texts:
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Chapters 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17 (182 pages)
Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 1-375.
Case studies:
*Peter Holquist, “State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism” in: Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework, ed. By Amir Weiner (Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 19-45. (26 pages)
*Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2001), Chapter 3, pp. 39-67 (28 pages)
*Guenter Lewy, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000), Chapter 14, pp. 218-228 (10 pages)
*Tomislav Dulic, “Mass Killing in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945: A Case for Comparative Research” in: Journal of Genocide Research, V8 N3 (September 2006), pp. 255-88. (33 pages)
*Alexander Laban Hinton, “Why Did You Kill? The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor” in: The Journal of Asian Studies, V57 N1 (February 1998), pp. 93-122. (29 pages)
*Jerry Fowler, “Evolution of Conflict and Genocide in Sudan: A Historical Survey” in: Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes, ed. by Joyce Apsel (Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2005), pp. 21-8. (7 pages)
?Theory of genocide:
*Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 35-67. (32 pages)
*Alex Alvarez, Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001), Chapter 6, pp. 130-152. (22 pages)
*Richard G. Hovannisian, “Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Comparison With Holocaust Denial” in: Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, ed. by R. Hovannisian (Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1998), pp. 201-235. (34 pages)
*Yves Beigbeder, Judging War Criminals: The Politics of International Justice (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1999), Chapter 5, pp. 104-124 (20 pages)
*Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (Beacon Press, 1998), pp. 25-51. (26 pages)
?Total: 824 pages.