Anton Weiss Wendt: 2 books

Book cover of A Rhetorical Crime

A Rhetorical Crime

Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War

by Anton Weiss-Wendt
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018

The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics? A...
Book cover of Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism
by Nanci Adler, Johan Dietsch, John Paul Himka
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical...
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