call for papers-- Journal of Genocide Research

[Alexandra Smith]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic Issue of the Journal of Genocide Research (JGR)

New Perspectives on Soviet Mass Violence

The study of Soviet mass violence has for a long time been  
overshadowed by ideological disputes and battles of the Cold War. Even  
Raphael Lemkin, the self-proclaimed founder of the UN Genocide  
Convention and pioneer of the study of mass violence, was an ardent  
anticommunist and recommended the United States to sponsor an  
international special committee to investigate Soviet genocide (See  
Anton Weiss-Wendt?s article â??Hostage of Politics:Raphael Lemkin on  
the Soviet Genocide in the Journal of Genocide Research 7 (2005), Nr.  
4, 551-559).

Furthermore, Ernst Nolte's apologetic comparison between the crimes of  
Hitler and Stalin that led to the West German Historikerstreit  
(historians' quarrel) in 1986 has further politically charged and  
complicated a serious academic investigation of Soviet mass violence.  
Since the end of the Cold War, a number of unbiased studies have  
broadened our knowledge about genocide, ethnic cleansing and other  
forms of mass violence in the former Soviet Union. However, several  
aspects as for example the deportation of the Chechens and other  
Caucasian peoples and the Ukrainian famine 1932/33 need more empirical  
research.

To foster the discussion on Soviet mass violence, the editors of the  
Journal of Genocide Research are therefore inviting papers for a  
thematic issue devoted to this topic. The editors welcome original and  
innovative articles dealing with all possible aspects of Soviet mass  
violence from the beginning of the civil war to the end of the Cold War.

Proposals (max. 2 pages) for papers should be submitted with a short  
biographical sketch by July 15 to both editors:

Dominik J. Schaller (dominik.schaller at uni-heidelberg.de)

Jürgen Zimmerer (j.zimmerer at sheffield.ac.uk)

The articles, which should be a maximum of 8500 words including  
documentation, will be due at December 10, 2008.

After initial editor screening, all submissions will undergo peer review.

Please share this information with interested colleagues!

Journal of Genocide Research - the official journal of the  
International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)  
http://www.informaworld.com/jgr

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DOMINIK J. SCHALLER

Historisches Seminar
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Grabengasse 3-5
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research:
http://www.informaworld.com/jgr

Executive Secretary of the International Network of Genocide Scholars  
(INoGS) http://www.inogs.com

private address:

David Hess-Weg 10
8038 Zürich
Switzerland

phone: ++41 (0)44 481 43 15





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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604
e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk





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