Ronald Grigor Suny is professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His previous books include The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, and A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.

Praise for They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide -Suny is admirably dispassionate in explaining the particular circumstances that led the Ottoman government to embark on a policy of mass extermination.- --Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times -What distinguishes Suny's scholarship is a scrupulous attention to context and the genuine imperial anxiety of the Young Turks. They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (a title taken from another Talat diktat) is a fair-minded account. Unsparing in-depicting the viciousness of the killing, forced conversions and kidnapping of children and young women, it is rigorous in its choice of language and nuance, generous in its empathy but implacable in its conclusions.- --David Gardner, Financial Times

Ronald Grigor Suny is professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His previous books include The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, and A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.

Praise for They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide -Suny is admirably dispassionate in explaining the particular circumstances that led the Ottoman government to embark on a policy of mass extermination.- --Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times -What distinguishes Suny's scholarship is a scrupulous attention to context and the genuine imperial anxiety of the Young Turks. They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (a title taken from another Talat diktat) is a fair-minded account. Unsparing in-depicting the viciousness of the killing, forced conversions and kidnapping of children and young women, it is rigorous in its choice of language and nuance, generous in its empathy but implacable in its conclusions.- --David Gardner, Financial Times

Ronald Grigor Suny is professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His previous books include The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, and A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.

Praise for They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide -Suny is admirably dispassionate in explaining the particular circumstances that led the Ottoman government to embark on a policy of mass extermination.- --Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times -What distinguishes Suny's scholarship is a scrupulous attention to context and the genuine imperial anxiety of the Young Turks. They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (a title taken from another Talat diktat) is a fair-minded account. Unsparing in-depicting the viciousness of the killing, forced conversions and kidnapping of children and young women, it is rigorous in its choice of language and nuance, generous in its empathy but implacable in its conclusions.- --David Gardner, Financial Times