Landscapingthe Human GardenTwentieth-Century PopulationManagement in aComparative Framework

Edited byAMIR WEINER

Stanford University Press / Stanford, California

2003

Contents

Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Landscaping the Human Garden 1

AMIR WEINER

1. State Violence asTechnique

The Logic oj Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism 19

PETER HOLQUIST

2. The Transformation of State and Society inWorld War I Germany 46

ELISABETH DOMANSKY

3. Corporatism or Democracy

Tire Russian Provisional Government 0/1917 67

DANIEL ORLOVSKY

4. The Dead and the Unborn

French Pronatalism and the Abortion Law of 1920 91

MARY LOUISE ROBERTS

5. "More Masculine Men, More Feminine Women"

Tlie Iconography o/Nazi Racial Hatreds 102

CLAUDIA KOONZ

6. Defining Enemies, MakingVictims

Germans,Jews, and the Holocaust 135

OMER BARTOV

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7. When Memory Counts

War, Genocide, and Postwar Soviet Jewry 167

AMIR WEINER

8. Social Darwinism Versus Social Engineering

The "Education" qfjapanese Amencans During World War II 189

GORDON H. CHANG

9. How to Construct a Productive, Disciplined,Monoethnic Society

The Dilemma qfEast Central European Governments, 1914—1956 205

ISTVÄN DEÄK

10. Ethnic Cleansing Between War and Peace 218

NORMAN M. NAIMARK

11. Female Images in a State of War

The Israeli War Widow in Fiction and Film 236

YAEL ZERUBAVEL

Notes 261

Index 341