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Term: SPRING 24 Name: IDSC 481 Section: D01 Instructor: Buhr Location: SP
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EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM
Author: ARENDT
Edition: 06
Published Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780143039884
Publisher: PENG RAND
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
Term: SPRING 24 Name: IDSC 481 Section: D01 Instructor: Buhr Location: SP
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ORDINARY MEN
Author: BROWNING
Edition: (REV)17
Published Date: 2017
ISBN: 9780062303028
Publisher: HARP PUB
Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs.
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.
Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.
Term: SPRING 24 Name: IDSC 481 Section: D01 Instructor: Buhr Location: SP
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MODERN TYRANTS
Author: CHIROT
Edition: 96
Published Date: 1996
ISBN: 9780691027777
Publisher: INGRAM PUB
Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future. Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.
Term: SPRING 24 Name: IDSC 481 Section: D01 Instructor: Buhr Location: SP
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BLOODLANDS
Author: SNYDER
Edition: 22
Published Date: 2022
ISBN: 9781541600065
Publisher: HACHETTE B
Term: SPRING 24 Name: IDSC 481 Section: D01 Instructor: Buhr Location: SP
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ON TYRANNY:TWENTY LESSONS FROM...
Author: SNYDER
Edition: 17
Published Date: 2017
ISBN: 9780804190114
Publisher: PENG RAND
Term: SPRING 24 Name: IDSC 481 Section: D01 Instructor: Buhr Location: SP
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FINAL SOLUTIONS
Author: VALENTINO
Edition: 04
Published Date: 2004
ISBN: 9780801472732
Publisher: LONGLEAF
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.
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.
Final Solutions focuses on three types of mass killing: communist mass killings like the ones carried out in the
Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia; ethnic genocides as in Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda; and "counter-guerrilla"
campaigns including the brutal civil war in Guatemala and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Valentino closes
the book by arguing that attempts to prevent mass killing should focus on disarming and removing from power the
leaders and small groups responsible for instigating and organizing the killing.