Stalinist Terror and genocide

[Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU]

Hi All,

Picking the thread of the interesting discussion of Stalinka, I was wondering
if Stalinist repression/terror has been theorised in terms of genocide? That
is has someone looked at drawing the parallels between the Jewish Holocaust,
Armenian massacre, Rwandan and Bosnian ethnic cleansing? I dislike the word
cleansing although those who performed such killings tried to justify it in
terms of cleansing the communal body of the nation. Can Stalin-time killings
be called genocide? Is the term genocide appropriate to describe, theorise
and understand those tragic events?

Would be grateful for any comments?

Thanks

Subhash

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