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Book SynopsisTrade Review"No one to date has documented the history of the concept of genocide with the same level of sophistication as Weiss-Wendt.
A Rhetorical Crime stands as the definitive study of this period in the evolution of international criminal law."— David Crowe, author of War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History
"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education
"Anton Weiss-Wendt has presented clear and innovative arguments on a crucial topic and scrupulously supported them with relevant documents and other evidence. In so doing, he has written a salutary alternative narrative of human rights in the Cold War, one that has the potential to improve our understanding of Cold War dynamics as a whole."— Michigan War Studies
Table of ContentsForeword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War
2 Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned
3 Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia
4 The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq
5 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia
6 (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention
7 Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement
8 Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia
9 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
10 An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty
Conclusion
Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War
Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948‒1988
Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
