"Genocidal Temptation"

The Genocidal Temptation
One of Dr. Budryte's articles on Soviet genocide in Lithuania is published in "The Genocidal Temptation (2004). Please contact the University Press of America at 1.800.462.6420 to place your advance order for this important work.	Robert S. Frey, M.A., Editor Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2004 In January 2004, the University Press of America (UPA) in Lanham, Maryland, (www.univpress.com) will publish an edited volume of 17 articles. Entitled The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond, this work provides an integrated focus on the similarities, ramifications, and potential responses to the Nazi killing programs, the American atomic bombings in Japan, and the Tutsi massacres in Rwanda. The book is a compendium of recent Genocide Studies scholarship. That Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Rwanda cast ominous shadows forward into the future compels us to confront these horrific results of the human head, heart, and hand. This is the first time that --in one volume--compelling, integrated focus has been directed toward the Nazi killing programs, American atomic bombings in Japan, Tutsi massacres in Rwanda, Soviet genocide in Lithuania, and other mass killing and repression programs.
Advanced Praise for The Genocidal Temptation
Robert Frey makes a significant contribution by compiling the reflections of key scholars who have thought long and hard about the Holocaust and other genocides. While warning that the temptations of genocide have not diminished with the twenty-first century's arrival, they also help to show how those temptations may best be resisted. In these provocative pages, anguish and hope mix and mingle urgently. John K. Roth Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College	Far more than just another collection of "lest we forget" essays, this volume of original, current perspectives on the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries breaks important new ground by focusing on "genocidal temptations" of the present and future as well as the past. By including the work of established scholars in philosophy and theology along with history and psychology, the editor has successfully organized an innovative, comprehensive analysis of the seductive rationalizations leading to massive outbreaks of human destruction. It could well be an essential life preserver as we face the threatening uncertainties of the new millennium. Dr. Leon Rappoport Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Kansas State University and co-author with George M. Kren of The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior

Robert S. Frey, M.A., Editor Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2004

Robert S. Frey, M.A., Editor
Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2004