1st Edition
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide
This book examines crucial facets of the Russian invasion: among them, the Russian sexual violence against occupied Ukrainians, their “collaboration” and “filtration,” legal prosecutions especially relating to kidnapped Ukrainian children, the portrayal of events in Bucha on Russian social media, and the lessons learned from the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland during the initial weeks of the war, as well the potential pursuit of justice at the International Court of Justice, and the genocide claim more generally.
This anthology will serve as a valuable resource for scholars, policymakers, and the broader community involved in the study of genocide and conflict. It endeavours to offer not only insights into the immediate circumstances of the invasion but also a framework for broader discussions and a foundation for informed dialogues on the multifaceted dimensions of this geopolitical upheaval.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Genocide Research.
Introduction: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Diana Dumitru and A. Dirk Moses
1. Beyond the False Claim of Genocide: Preliminary Reflections on Ukraine's Prospects in Its Pursuit of Justice at the ICJ
Iryna Marchuk and Aloka Wanigasuriya
2. When the Head of State Makes Rape Jokes, His Troops Rape on the Ground: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine
Kateryna Busol
3. Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Children to the Russian Federation: A Genocide?
Yulia Ioffe
4. Russia’s Genocidal War in Ukraine: Radicalization and Social Destruction
Martin Shaw
5. Beyond Putin’s Analogies: The Genocide Debate on Ukraine and the Balkan Analogy Worth Noting
Shpend Kursani
6. Ukraine, Russia, and Genocide of Minor Differences
Alexander Etkind
7. The Paradox of Genocide in Modern Russia: Evolving Narratives of the Siege of Leningrad During the “Great Patriotic Operation”
Noah Krasman
8. “We’ve Got to Kill Them”: Responses to Bucha on Russian Social Media Groups
Ian Garner
9. Filtration Camps, Past and Present, and Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Franziska Exeler
10. A Return to Antenora? Observations on Collaboration During the Russo-Ukrainian War
Jared McBride
11. Civil Crisis Management in Poland: The First Weeks of the Relief in Russian War on Ukraine
Olga Byrska
12. The Postcolonial Moment in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Maria Mälksoo
13. Options for Prosecuting Russian Aggression Against Ukraine: A Critical Analysis
Kevin Jon Heller
14. The International Administration of Territory as an Interim Peace
A. Dirk Moses and Jessie Barton Hronešová
Biography
Diana Dumitru is Ion Rațiu Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University, USA. Her research interests include the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, nationality policies and antisemitism in the USSR, and late Stalinism and postwar trials in the Soviet Union. Her second book is entitled The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union (2016). She is an Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.
A. Dirk Moses is Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY, USA. He is the author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021) and is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.
