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Article: The Dark Side of Democracy.(The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing)(Book review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- March 22, 2007
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Michael Mann. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Democracy and genocide are terms that are not usually associated with each other. However, Michael Mann puts forth the very provocative argument that the increase of democracies over the past century is directly connected to the widespread incidents of ethnic cleansing and genocide over the same period. In The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing, Mann, a noted scholar on Fascism, provides five-hundred pages of dense case studies of Armenia; Nazi Germany; the Communist regimes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot; Yugoslavia; and Rwanda to ...