Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

by Roger D. Petersen

Book Overview

This 2002 book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures. The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Each historical chapter generates questions about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521007747
• ISBN13: 9780521007740
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"