Table of Contents

Preface: Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State: Continuing the Quest
Introduction: The Structural Underpinnings of European Genocide, 1912-1953
Part One: Great War and Revolution
1: The Great War: Site of Genocide or Signpost to its Future Enactment?
2: Armenian Genocide: Ottoman Catastrophes
3: The First Crisis of the Rimlands
Part Two: Interregnum between Great Wars
4: The Lost Peace
5: Anti-System One: The Emerging Stalin State
6: Anti-System Two: The Emerging Hitler State
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton, and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish / non-Jewish Relations. His writing ranges from Jewish history to genocide and anthropogenic climate change, including, most recently History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (co-edited with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts, 2010). He is founder of Rescue! History, and co-founder of the Crisis Forum.
The two volumes of Crisis of Genocide continue a multi-volume project - begun with The Meaning of Genocide and The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (2005) - to chart the history of genocide in the
age of the nation-state.

Reviews

The book's breadth of vision, attention to detail, and awareness of synchronicity across these very different regions are remarkable ... [The Crisis of the Genocide is] a remarkable, rich and suggestive history of national projects of elimination in Europe's murderous first half of the twentieth century.
*Mark Roseman, Times Literary Supplement*

On the whole Mark Levene's impressive study is an extremely readable, informative, and timely book. It should become compulsory reading for Europe's youth in order to make sure that the events that have uprooted Europe in the first half of the 20th century will never happen again.
*Peter Hilpold, European Journal of International Law*

A renewed purpose for historians of genocide ... a masterclass in the genesis of genocide ... a great accomplishment. Levene's emphasis on the modern political system as the causative element in genocides has opened up fruitful lines of thinking and has advanced the field in major ways ... These volumes dramatically expand our definition of genocide.
*Cathie Carmichael, Robert Gerwarth, Eric D. Weitz, Vladimir Solinari, Forum in the Journal of Genocide Research*

Few scholars match his [Levene's] panoptic erudition, synthetic ability, cosmopolitan sensitivity, and attention to detail ... a very well-written, thoroughly researched, convincingly argued, and informative book that can be recommended for a broad audience including upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.
*Holocaust and Genocide Studies*

This extremely ambitious work provides a very knowledgeable and enormously broad survey of violence in large parts of Europe and southwest Asia from the 1910s to the early 1950s.
*Christian Gerlach, American Historical Review*