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The Soviet Union and the gutting of the UN Genocide Convention / Anton Weiss-Wendt.
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Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xii, 385 pages ; 24 cm
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HV6322.7 .W44 2017
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Genocide intervention
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Political aspects
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Genocide
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Prevention
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International cooperation
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Genocide (International law)
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Soviet Union
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Foreign relations
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1945-1991
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Soviet Union
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Foreign relations
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United States
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United States
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Foreign relations
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Soviet Union
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
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United Nations
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Series
Critical human rights
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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.
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ISBN
9780299312909 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0299312909 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016044010
OCLC
959667389
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40027346486
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