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100 1 _aMorrock, Richard.
245 1 4 _aThe psychology of genocide and violent oppression :
_ba study of mass cruelty from Nazi Germany to Rwanda /
_cRichard Morrock.
260 _aJefferson, N.C. :
_bMcFarland & Co.,
_cc2010.
300 _avii, 254 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aA psychohistorical perspective on a violent century -- Germany: the complex roots of national socialism -- Northern Ireland: the politics of fear -- Yugoslavia: prisoners of myth and history -- Rwanda: rage, anxiety and genocide -- Sri Lanka: emotional repression, social stratification, and ethnic violence -- Cambodia: displaced anger and auto-genocide -- China: Mao's cultural revolution as reaction formation -- Sudan: entitlement fantasies and occidentophobia -- The Muslim world: the psycho-geography of hate -- Iran: Khomeini's Islamic revolution: shadow and substance -- Italy: birth trauma, expansionism, and fascism -- Argentina: fear of abandonment, caudilloism, and the dirty war -- Haiti: a nation of origin-folk -- South Africa: the psychology of apartheid -- Conclusion: Psychohistory looks ahead.
520 _a"This book provides a view into the root causes of genocide, looking beyond the surface into the underlying psychology of violence and oppression. The author argues that genocide does not simply occur at the hands of dictators or tyrannical despots, but at the hands of ordinary citizens whose pain and oppression forces them to follow a leader "--Provided by publisher.
650 0 _aGenocide
_xHistory.
650 0 _aGenocide
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aPolitical violence
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aPsychohistory.
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