Organized Mass Murder: Structure, Participation and Motivation in Comparative Perspective

Donald Bloxham

doi:10.1093/hgs/dcn026

Organized Mass Murder: Structure, Participation and Motivation in Comparative Perspective

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Organizational structures have played a key role in modern state-sponsored mass murder. The author of this article criticizes and synthesizes the existing scholarship, focusing first on historiographical debates surrounding the Holocaust. He then considers the Stalinist purges, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Armenian Genocide in the light of this and other theoretical literature. The article sheds light on the ways organizational norms have interacted with other motivational factors to shape the behavior of mass murderers in distinct historical episodes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	203-45
Number of pages	43
Journal	Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Volume	22
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcn026
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008

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