2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian at Stanford and Hoover Institution — author of Fires of Hatred (on ethnic cleansing in 20th century Europe) and Stalin's Genocides — a leading scholar of 20th century European ethnic violence.
Cambodian communist leader who led the Khmer Rouge to power in 1975 and oversaw the Cambodian genocide — the killing of approximately 1.7 million people (25% of Cambodia's population) — in an attempt to create an agrarian utopia, often cited as the reductio ad absurdum of Rousseau's back-to-nature ideology.