![]() ![]() The course of action is to foster freedom." Death by Government is a compelling look at the horrors that occur in nondemocratic societies. Thus, as Rummel says, "The problem is power. The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence the more freedom, the less the violence. ![]() His results clearly and decisively show that democracies commit less democide than other regimes. He also writes about areas of suspected genocide: North Korea, Mexico, and feudal Russia. Rummel discusses genocide in China, Nazi Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Pakistan. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inherently nonviolent. ![]() Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls "democide." He presents the primary results in tables and figures as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which 1 million or more people were killed by a regime. ![]()
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