100 Days of Madness: Rwanda Genocide in 1994

In his monograph, Professor I. V. Krivushin, Doctor of Historical Sciences at the National Research University of the Higher School of Economics, provides the first comprehensive analysis in Russian historiography of Rwanda genocide in 1994, its historical background and causes, identifying the methods used, the main organisers and participants, and the role of the media and Christian churches in the genocide. Based on a large array of sources, the study shows how the genocide discourse 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 in it changed, what forms of resistance to genocide took place and how they were suppressed, what the strategies of destruction and survival as well as the reasons for the non-intervention of the UN, foreign states, and world public opinion were.
The book is intended for a wide range of readers, political scientists, historians, ethnologists, international relations specialists, psychologists, sociologists, and journalists.

Ivan Krivushin. 100 Days of Madness: Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Moscow: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2024.