The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide ConventionAnton Weiss-Wendt
When Raphael Lemkin coined the word “genocide,” he initially identified it with the intention to “annihilate a group of population by destroying the essential foundations of life for that group,” and further posited that “genocide might be political, social, cultural, economic, biological, physical,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 297-300 |
| Review of: | The Soviet Union and the gutting of the UN Genocide Convention (Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017) (Drumbl, Mark A.)
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| Summary: | When Raphael Lemkin coined the word “genocide,” he initially identified it with the intention to “annihilate a group of population by destroying the essential foundations of life for that group,” and further posited that “genocide might be political, social, cultural, economic, biological, physical, religious, and moral” (p. 19). Lemkin’s concern lay as much in the extirpation of identity as of life, and hence he conceptualized genocide broadly to encompass, in Anton Weiss-Wendt’s words, the destruction of “social and political institutions, culture, language, national feelings, religion, economic means, personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and finally life itself” (p. 19). For Lemkin, the path forward lay in law, specifically an international treaty. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy026 |