One Hundred Days in the Grip of Madness: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994

In the monograph by Professor I.V. Krivushin, Doctor of Historical Sciences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, a comprehensive analysis of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, its historical preconditions and causes is carried out for the first time in domestic historiography. The methods of its implementation, the main organizers and participants, and the role of the media and Christian churches in the genocide are identified. The research, based on a large array of sources, shows how the "discourse of genocide" was formed, how traditional administrative structures were transformed into mechanisms for the mass extermination of "enemies" and their "accomplices", how the consciousness of those involved changed, in what forms resistance to the genocide was carried out and by what means it was suppressed, what the strategies for extermination and survival were, and what the reasons were for the indifference of the UN, foreign states, and global public opinion. For a wide range of readers, primarily political scientists, historians, ethnologists, international experts, psychologists, sociologists, and journalists.