The Soviet Union and the gutting of the UN Genocide Convention / Anton Weiss-Wendt.

Author
Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xii, 385 pages ; 24 cm

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    Critical human rights [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Based on extensive archival research, Anton Weiss-Wendt reveals in detail how the political aims of the superpowers rendered the convention a weak instrument for addressing abuses against human rights. The Kremlin viewed the genocide treaty as a political document and feared repercussions. What the Soviets wanted most was to keep the subjugation of Eastern Europe and the vast system of forced labor camps out of the genocide discourse. The American Bar Association and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in turn, worried that the Convention contained vague formulations that could be used against the United States, especially in relation to the plight of African Americans. Sidelined in the heated discussions, Weiss-Wendt shows, were humanitarian concerns for preventing future genocides. --Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-362) and index.
    Contents
    • The class struggle for the substance and meaning of international law
    • Defensive self-righteousness in Soviet diplomatic practice
    • Net to codification of international law
    • The UN Secretariat Draft Genocide Convention
    • Key Soviet documents on genocide analyzed
    • Negotiating the provisions of the Draft Genocide Convention
    • A pyrrhic victory on the Genocide Convention
    • Drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    • The forced transfer of children clause, or the Balkan gambit
    • The morning after : US ratification put on hold
    • Raphael Lemkin and the émigré anticommunist front
    • Communism=Stalinism=Nazism=Genocide
    • Subversion alleged : Draft Covenant on Human Rights and Draft Code of Offenses against the Peace and Security of Mankind
    • The UN investigation of forced labor, 1948-1954
    • The making of genocide in the Korean War
    • Racial discrimination in the United States : we charge genocide
    • Race relations in America and the Soviet peace offensive
    • Thou shalt not indict : the status quo on genocide by the early 1950s.
    ISBN
    • 9780299312909 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0299312909 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016044010
    OCLC
    959667389
    Other standard number
    • 40027346486
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