Rosenbaum Chapter 4

Rosebaum compares several genocides including the devastation of the Native American population, The Famine in Ukraine, and the Armenian Genocide.  Rosenbaum  discusses the devastation of the Native Americans from their initial contact with Europeans to the intentional slaughter by the United States military.  The Famine in Ukraine an episode in History that I was personally unaware of.  According to Rosenbaum, Stalin in an effort to Sovietize the Ukrainian population sought to annihilate    Ukrainian Nationalism.  The Ottoman Empire, a Islamic theocracy, tried to exterminate the Christian Armenian population in Anatolia and the surrounding area.  Rosenbaum concludes that none of these genocides were the Holocaust.

What beliefs and ideologies drove these genocides?

Were these genocides political, racial, or religious?