A Rhetorical Crime shows how, over the course of the Cold War era, genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in international propaganda battles. Through a unique comparative analysis of U.S. and Soviet statements on genocide, Weiss-Wendt investigates why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action. 

Foreword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1    Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War
2    Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned
3    Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia
4    The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq
5    Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia
6    (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention
7    Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement
8    Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia
9    The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
10    An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty
Conclusion
Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War
Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948¿1988
Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948-1988
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index¿