| Description |
[xii], 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Landscaping the Human Garden / Amir Weiner -- 1. State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism / Peter Holquist -- 2. The Transformation of State and Society in World War I Germany / Elisabeth Domansky -- 3. Corporatism or Democracy: The Russian Provisional Government of 1917 / Daniel Orlovsky -- 4. The Dead and the Unborn: French Pronatalism and the Abortion Law of 1920 / Mary Louise Roberts -- 5. "More Masculine Men, More Feminine Women": The Iconography of Nazi Racial Hatreds / Claudia Koonz -- 6. Defining Enemies, Making Victims: Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust / Omer Bartov -- 7. When Memory Counts: War, Genocide, and Postwar Soviet Jewry / Amir Weiner -- 8. Social Darwinism Versus Social Engineering: The "Education" of Japanese Americans During World War II |
| Summary |
The contributions to this volume constitute an attempt to study a number of significant efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape-either through social policy or brute force-their societies and their populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
"This volume grew out of a workshop held at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, on 28-29 March 1997, and from an ongoing dialogue among the participants."--P. [xii] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-340) and index |
| Subject |
Political atrocities -- Congresses.
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Political persecution -- Congresses.
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State-sponsored terrorism -- Congresses.
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Genocide -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Weiner, Amir, 1961-
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Stanford Humanities Center.
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| LC no. |
2002010784 |
| ISBN |
0804746222 cloth alkaline paper |
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0804746303 paperback alkaline paper |
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