The Soviet Union and the gutting of the UN Genocide ConventionAnton Weiss-Wendt.
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- Critical human rights .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Class Struggle for the Substance and Meaning of International Law; 2. Defensive Self-Righteousness in Soviet Diplomatic Practice; 3. Net to Codification of International Law; 4. The UN Secretariat Draft Genocide Convention; 5. Key Soviet Documents on Genocide Analyzed; 6. Negotiating the Provisions of the Draft Genocide Convention; 7. A Pyrrhic Victory on the Genocide Convention; 8. Drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 9. The Forced Transfer of Children Clause, or the Balkan Gambit 10. The Morning After: US Ratification Put on Hold 11. Raphael Lemkin and the Émigré Anticommunist Front; 12. Communism=Stalinism=Nazism=Genocide; 13. Subversion Alleged: Draft Covenant on Human Rights and Draft Code of Offenses against the Peace and Security of Mankind; 14. The UN Investigation of Forced Labor, 1948-1954; 15. The Making of Genocide in the Korean War; 16. Racial Discrimination in the United States: We Charge Genocide; 17. Race Relations in America and the Soviet Peace Offensive; 18. Thou Shalt Not Indict: The Status Quo on Genocide by the Early 1950s; Conclusion; Notes
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
Genocide intervention--Political aspects. Genocide--Prevention--International cooperation. Genocide (International law)