Genocide in Modern History

Exploration of the emergence, evolution and causes of genocide in the twentieth century. By studying the origin of the legal term and its contested nature, the course will focus on manifestations of colonial genocide; the mass murder of the Armenian people; the Nazi Holocaust from manifestations of colonial genocide, the mass murder of the Armenian people, the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and the mass murder of the Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), mass crimes perpetrated by the Soviet regime, the communist-induced genocide in Cambodia, "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia, and the genocide in Rwanda.