RT Book
T1 "They can live in the desert but nowhere else": a history of the Armenian genocide
T2 Human rights and crimes against humanity
A1 Suny, Ronald Grigor 1940-
LA English
PP Princeton Oxford
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1614598355
AB Empire -- Armenians -- Nation -- Great Powers -- Revolution -- Counterrevolution -- War -- Removal -- Genocide -- Orphaned Nation -- Conclusion: Thinking about the Unthinkable : Genocide -- Historians Look at the Armenian Genocide : A Bibliographical Discussion
AB "Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-16 were committed. As it lost territory during the war, the Ottoman Empire was becoming a more homogenous Turkic-Muslim state, but it still contained large non-Muslim communities, including the Christian Armenians. The Young Turk leaders of the empire believed that the Armenians were internal enemies secretly allied to Russia and plotting to win an independent state. Suny shows that the great majority of Armenians were in truth loyal subjects who wanted to remain in the empire. But the Young Turks, steeped in imperial anxiety and anti-Armenian bias, became convinced that the survival of the state depended on the elimination of the Armenians. Suny is the first to explore the psychological factors as well as the international and domestic events that helped lead to genocide. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN a
SN 0691147302
SN 9780691147307
SN 9780691175966
K1 Genocide : Psychological aspects : History : 20th century : Turkey
K1 Armenians : History : 20th century : Turkey
K1 World Politics : 1900-1918
K1 HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
K1 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
K1 Armenians
K1 Ethnic Relations
K1 Genocide : Psychological aspects
K1 Politics and government
K1 World Politics
K1 Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
K1 Genocide : Turkey : Psychological aspects : History : 20th century
K1 Armenians : Turkey : History : 20th century
K1 Turkey : Ethnic relations : History : 20th century
K1 Turkey : Politics and government : 1909-1918 : Turkey : History
K1 Turkey : Politics and government : 1909-1918
K1 Armenier : Osmanisches Reich : Völkermord : Geschichte 1915-1918