Piotr Madajczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences)

The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Approaches to History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781032584898
• ISBN-10: 1032584890
• Artikelnr.: 68474511

Autorenporträt

Piotr Madajczyk is currently affiliated with the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Their research interests include recent German and Polish-German History, Social Engineering, and the biography of Lemkin. Publications include Social Engineering in Central and South-East Europe in the First Half of the 20th Century, in: Poland, Soviet Union, Russia. From Past through Memory to Politics (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1: Lemkin's early days. 1. Childhood 2. National
divisions at the dawn of the Second Polish Republic. Part 2: In the Second
Polish Republic. 3. Final exams 4. University days 5. A lawyer in the
Second Polish Republic 6. Lemkin's analysis of criminal law under
totalitarian systems 7. Lemkin's research in international law 8.
Professional career after 1933. Part 3: Wartime and the Nuremberg Trials.
9. The escape 10. "A Pole discovers America" 11. Axis Rule in Occupied
Europe 12. Lemkin's role in Nuremberg. Part 4: After the war. 13. Hard
choices in a world split by the iron curtain 14. The final years.