A study of genocide using a case study methodology

This thesis deals with genocide, and the reason this writer has chosen it as a topic is because he has found it to be a phenomenon which is not characteristic of just the 20th century. Too often the extermination of the Jews and Kulaks in the 20th century is viewed as something which is unique; as a phenomenon which has never happened before; that somehow the extermination of the Jews and Kulaks in the 20th century is quite different from the liquidation of the Huguenots in the 17th century, or of the Anabaptists in the 16th century. It is the contention of this thesis that genocide is not a too rare phenomenon in collective insanity; that the ideological justification for the extermination of the Jews and Kulaks in the 20th century has a likeness and a similarity to other cases of mass extermination pre-dating the age of mass democracy and technology.