{"title":"Eric D. Weitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric D. Weitz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound explorations into the complexities of 20th-century history, with a particular focus on political upheaval, genocide, and the cultural transformations of Europe. His works engage deeply with themes of power, violence, and societal change, providing essential context for understanding the tragedies and revolutions that shaped the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect compelling narratives that blend rigorous scholarship with accessible prose, illuminating dark chapters such as the Weimar Republic’s turbulent years and the broader implications of genocidal policies. 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Weitz reveals how Germans rose from the turbulence and defeat of World War I and revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe explores the period's groundbreaking cultural creativity, from architecture and theatre, to the new field of \"sexology\"—and presents richly detailed portraits of some of the Weimar's greatest figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeimar Germany\u003c\/em\u003e also shows that beneath this glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical Right. 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Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century—and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide and traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. He demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense crisis, these states targeted certain national and racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of these \"enemies\" would enable the dominant group to flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Century of Genocide\u003c\/em\u003e offers some of the most absorbing accounts ever written of the population purges forever associated with the names Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Milosevic. 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