Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900Routledge, 06.02.2018 - 496 Seiten This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inherently nonviolent. Rummel discusses genocide in China, Nazi Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Pakistan. He also writes about areas of suspected genocide: North Korea, Mexico, and feudal Russia. His results clearly and decisively show that democracies commit less democide than other regimes. The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence; the more freedom, the less the violence. Thus, as Rummel says, "The problem is power. The solution is democracy. The course of action is to foster freedom." Death by Government is a compelling look at the horrors that occur in modern societies. It depicts how democide has been very much a part of human history. Among other examples, the book includes the massacre of Europeans during the Thirty Years' War, the relatively unknown genocide of the French Revolution, and the slaughtering of American Indians by colonists in the New World. This riveting account is an essential tool for historians, political scientists, and scholars interested in the study of genocide. |
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... thousand sources. I then did over 4,200 consolidations and calculations on these estimates and organized everything into appendix tables totaling more than 18,100 rows. These tables give the subject of an estimate, the estimated number ...
... thousands within a short duration. In some cities captured by the Mongols, for example, the conquerors allegedly massacred over 1 million men, women, and children. Parts 2 to 4 present a chapter on each regime that murdered 1 million or ...
... thousands of a percent, why then do I so precisely specify a democide number? For example, in the chapter for communist China I give the range of its democide as 5,999,000 to 102,671,000, most likely 35,236,000 people killed. Why such ...
... thousands, such as the top five FIGURE 1.1 Megamurderers and Their Annual Rates of Democide (From table 1.2) 70 —- __ 9 -- a 60 — — 7 E 50 u .\° 9 _ —— 6 E ; Annual Democide Rate g E 40 l 5 '5 g a 2 E 30 - 4 3 ° :4 _l '- 20 - < 2 10 ...
... thousand sources to arrive at an absolute low and high for democide committed by 218 regimes or groups. It is highly improbable that the actual democide would be below or above this range. The totals that have been displayed in previous ...
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THE DEKAMEGAMURDERERS | 77 |
THE LESSER MEGAMURDERERS | 141 |
THE SUSPECTED MEGAMURDERERS
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References | 405 |
Index | 479 |