Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Introduction to Volume III
- Part I Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution
- 1 Prelude to Genocide
- 2 War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
- 3 The Armenian Genocide
- 4 Australia’s Stolen Generations, 1914–2021
- 5 Eurocentrism, Silence and Memory of Genocide in Colonial Libya, 1929–1934
- 6 Spain 1936–1945
- 7 Genocide in Stalinist Russia and Ukraine, 1930–1938
- 8 The Famine in Soviet Kazakhstan
- Part II World War Two
- Part III The Nation-State System during the Cold War
- Part IV Globalisation and Genocide since the Cold War
- Index
3 - The Armenian Genocide
An Overview
from Part I - Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Introduction to Volume III
- Part I Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution
- 1 Prelude to Genocide
- 2 War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
- 3 The Armenian Genocide
- 4 Australia’s Stolen Generations, 1914–2021
- 5 Eurocentrism, Silence and Memory of Genocide in Colonial Libya, 1929–1934
- 6 Spain 1936–1945
- 7 Genocide in Stalinist Russia and Ukraine, 1930–1938
- 8 The Famine in Soviet Kazakhstan
- Part II World War Two
- Part III The Nation-State System during the Cold War
- Part IV Globalisation and Genocide since the Cold War
- Index
Summary
The date 24 April 1915 is generally seen as the symbolic beginning of the Armenian genocide, as it marks the date on which some 200 Armenian political, religious and intellectual leaders in Istanbul were arrested. In fact, massacres of Armenians had already begun in the southeastern and eastern provinces of Anatolia and the Caucasus as early as August–September 1914, months before the Ottoman entry into World War One.
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- The Cambridge World History of Genocide , pp. 67 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023