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Amoral Realism or Immoral Obfuscation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Carol S. Lilly*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Nebraska, Kearney

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In his article, "Schindler's Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers," Robert Hayden combines comparative history, political commentary, and amoral realism. In the process, he presents a number of arguments with which it is difficult to disagree, but also many that are provocative and, indeed, offensive. Because Hayden makes so many arguments in this piece (both primary, secondary, and parenthetical; explicit and implicit; open and disguised) my critique will not follow the organization of his paper. Rather, it will challenge Hayden's article on three counts: 1) its factual accuracy; 2) its lack of reference to existing literature on the topic; and 3) the logic, validity, and moral consequences of its arguments.

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1996

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