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1 online resource |
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Critical human rights |
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Critical human rights.
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Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Class Struggle for the Substance and Meaning of International Law; 2. Defensive Self-Righteousness in Soviet Diplomatic Practice; 3. Net to Codification of International Law; 4. The UN Secretariat Draft Genocide Convention; 5. Key Soviet Documents on Genocide Analyzed; 6. Negotiating the Provisions of the Draft Genocide Convention; 7. A Pyrrhic Victory on the Genocide Convention; 8. Drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 9. The Forced Transfer of Children Clause, or the Balkan Gambit |
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10. The Morning After: US Ratification Put on Hold 11. Raphael Lemkin and the Émigré Anticommunist Front; 12. Communism=Stalinism=Nazism=Genocide; 13. Subversion Alleged: Draft Covenant on Human Rights and Draft Code of Offenses against the Peace and Security of Mankind; 14. The UN Investigation of Forced Labor, 1948-1954; 15. The Making of Genocide in the Korean War; 16. Racial Discrimination in the United States: We Charge Genocide; 17. Race Relations in America and the Soviet Peace Offensive; 18. Thou Shalt Not Indict: The Status Quo on Genocide by the Early 1950s; Conclusion; Notes |
| Summary |
After the staggering horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations resolved to prevent and punish the crime of genocide throughout the world. The resulting UN Genocide Convention treaty, however, was drafted, contested, and weakened in the midst of Cold War tensions and ideological struggles between the Soviet Union and the West. 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 |
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United Nations.
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United Nations fast |
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50072872
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9) fast |
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Genocide intervention -- Political aspects
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Genocide -- Prevention -- International cooperation
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Genocide (International law)
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Genocide (International law)
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125760
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115
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Soviet Union
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780299312930 |
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0299312933 |
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