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Author Petersen, Roger Dale, 1959-

Title Understanding ethnic violence : fear, hatred, and resentment in twentieth-century Eastern Europe / Roger D. Petersen
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Contents 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Theory -- 2. An Emotion-Based Approach to Ethnic Conflict -- 3. Resentment -- 4. Fear, Hatred, and Rage -- Pt. 2. Comparisons: The Baltic States in the Twentieth Century -- 5. Baltic 1905 -- 6. In the Wake of Barbarossa -- 7. The Reconstruction of Independent States / John Ginkel -- 8. Across the Century -- 9. Czechoslovakia, 1848-1998 / Beth Wilner -- 10. Yugoslavia -- 11. Conclusion
Summary "This book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures." "The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to the case, to learn which does the best job of explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict." "The findings challenge conventional wisdom, in that the Resentment narrative, centered on a sense of unjust group status, provides the best fit for a variety of cases. While Fear, Hatred, and Rage do motivate hostile actions, Resentment pervasively appears to inflame ethnic animosity and drive outcomes in the timing and pattern of action."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Problemas raciales Europa del Este Historia Siglo XX
Este de Europa Relaciones étnicas Historia Siglo XX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index
Subject Ethnic conflict -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114961 -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165
LC no. 2002017403
ISBN 052180986X
0521007747 paperback