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<p>Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group of powerful leaders and is often carried out without the active support of broader society. Mass killing, in his view, is a brutal political or military strategy designed to accomplish leaders' most important objectives, counter threats to their power, and solve their most difficult problems.</p> <p>In order to capture the full scope of mass killing during the twentieth century, Valentino does not limit his analysis to violence directed against ethnic groups, or to the attempt to destroy victim groups as such, as do most previous studies of genocide. Rather, he defines mass killing broadly as the intentional killing of a massive number of noncombatants, using the criteria of 50,000 or more deaths within five years as a quantitative standard.</p> <p>Final Solutions focuses on three types of mass killing: communist mass killings like the ones carried out in the Soviet Union, China, a

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Author

Benjamin A. Valentino

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801467165

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, True Crime, Political Science