Revolutionary and Antirevolutionary Genocides

A Comparison of State Murders in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975 to 1979, and in Indonesia, 1965 to 1966

Bibliographic Data

ID2107951
AuthorsHelen Fein (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume35
Issue4
Pages796-823
Publication date1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500018715
OpenAlexW2096283908
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited41

Revolutionary ideologies of both the left and the right have led to genocide and mass murders of unprecedented scope in this century. The survey by Harff and Gurr shows that genocides and politicides-killings of people in groups targeted because of organized political opposition-between 1945 and 1980 may have caused in this same period over twice as many deaths than wars. Such state killings claimed up to 2.6 times the number of lives lost in the aftermath of natural disasters between 1967 and 1986 (1987). Similarly, Rummel argues that four times as many people have been killed in democides, or state mass murders, of citizens in the twentieth century than have been killed in wars (1992

Criminology · Democracy · Development economics · Genocide · Ideology · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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