Rhetorical Crime

ANTON WEISS-WENDT is a research professor at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of many books, including The Soviet Union and the Genocide Convention, 1945–1954.

"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education"Anton Weiss-Wendt has presented clear and innovative arguments on a crucial topic and scrupulously supported them with relevant documents and other evidence. In so doing, he has written a salutary alternative narrative of human rights in the Cold War, one that has the potential to improve our understanding of Cold War dynamics as a whole."— Michigan War Studies"No one to date has documented the history of the concept of genocide with the same level of sophistication as Weiss-Wendt. A Rhetorical Crime stands as the definitive study of this period in the evolution of international criminal law."— David Crowe, author of War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History

• Foreword by Douglas Irvin-EricksonList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1    Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War2    Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned3    Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia4    The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq5    Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia6    (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention7    Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement8    Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia9    The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict10    An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide TreatyConclusionAfterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold WarAppendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948‒1988Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex