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NIRU LIBRARY

The lesser evil : moral approaches to genocide practices /

HELMUT DUBIEL

The lesser evil : moral approaches to genocide practices / edited by; Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. - viii, 232 p. ; 24 cm. - Totalitarian movements and political religions, 1477-058X .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nazism-communism: delineating the comparison / Martin Malia -- The uses and abuses of comparison / Tzvetan Todorov -- Worstward ho: on comparing totalitarianisms / Irving Wohlfarth -- Imagining the absolute: mapping Western conceptions of evil / Steven E. Aschheim -- Remembrance and knowledge: nationalism and Stalinism in comparative discourse / Dan Diner -- Comparative evil: degrees, numbers and the problem of measure / Berel Lang -- The institutional frame: totalitarianism, extermination and the state / Sigrid Meuschel -- Asian communist regimes: the other experience of the extreme / Jean-Louis Margolin -- A lesser evil? Italian fascism in/and the totalitarian equation / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- On the moral blindness of communism / Steven Lukes -- Totalitarian attempts, anti-totalitarian networks: thoughts on the taboo of comparison / Ulrike Ackermann -- If Hitler invaded Hell: distinguishing between Nazism and communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the fall of European communism / Jeffrey Herf -- The memory of crime and the formation of indentity / Gabriel Motzkin -- Mirror-writing of a good life? / Helmut Dubiel.

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