Main group 1

• Bauer, Y, Comparisons with Other Genocides, Part of: Rethinking the Holocaust, New Haven, Yale University Press, cop. 2001Compulsory*
• Bloxham, Donald, The Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916: Cumulative Radicalization and the Development of a Destruction Policy, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, vol. III, p. 307–349Compulsory*
• Burds, Jeffrey, The Soviet War against `Fifth Columnists': The Case of Chechnya, 1942-4, Part of: Journal of contemporary history.., vol. 42, no. 02, 2007, p. 267–314Compulsory*
• Iordachi, Constantin, Comparative fascist studies: new perspectives, London, Routledge, 2010Compulsory* ("An Introduction", pp. 1–50.)
• Dulić, Tomislav, Rethinking violence: Motives and modes of mass murder in the independent state of Croatia, 1941–45, Part of: The Routledge history of genocide, London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, p. 151–165Compulsory*
• Ellman, Michael, The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-34, Part of: Europe-Asia studies., vol. 57, no. 06, 2005, p. 823–41Compulsory*
• Fein, Helen, Genocide: a sociological perspective, [New ed.], London, Sage, 1993Compulsory*
• George, Alexander L., Case studies and theory development in the social sciences, Cambridge, Mass., MIT, 2005Compulsory*
• Green, L N, Forms of Comparison, Part of: Comparison and history: Europe in cross-national perspective, New York, Routledge, 2004Compulsory*
• Gumz, Jonathan E., Wehrmacht Perceptions of Mass Violence in Croatia, 1941-1942, Part of: The historical journal., vol. 44, no. 04, 2001, p. 1015–38Compulsory*
• Haupt, H-G; Kocka, J, Comparative History: Methods, Aims, Problems, Part of: Comparison and history: Europe in cross-national perspective, New York, Routledge, 2004Compulsory*
• Hilberg, Raul., The destruction of the European jews, Student ed., New York, Holmes & Meier, cop. 1985Compulsory* (pp. 27–259.)
• Holquist, Peter, Violent Russia, Deadly Marxism: Russia and the Epoch of Violence, 1905-21, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, vol. IV, p. 3–27.Compulsory*
• Horne, John N.; Kramer, Alan, German atrocities, 1914: a history of denial, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001Compulsory* (pp. 9–86.)
• Chalk, Frank; Jonassohn, Kurt, The history and sociology of genocide: analyses and case studies, New Haven, Yale University Press in cooperation with the Montreal institute for genocide studies, cop. 1990Compulsory* (pp. 58–138.)
• Huttenbach, Henry, Locating the Holocaust on the Genocide Spectrum: Towards a Methodology of Definition and Categorization, Part of: Holocaust and genocide studies: an international journal, vol. 03, no. 03, 1988, p. 289–303Compulsory*
• Mann, Michael, The dark side of democracy :b explaining ethnic cleansing, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005Compulsory*
• Mazower, Mark, Military Violence and National Socialist Values: The Wehrmacht in Greece 1941-1944, Part of: Past & present, no. 134, 1992, p. 129–58Compulsory*
• Mazower, Mark, Violence and the State in the Twentieth Century, Part of: The American historical review., vol. 107, no. 4, 2002, p. 1158–78Compulsory*
• Melander, Erik; Öberg, Magnus; Hall, Jonathan, Are 'New Wars' More Atrocious? Battle Intensity, Civilians Killed and Forced Migration Before and After the End of the Cold War, European Journal of International Relations 15 (3): 505-536, 2009Compulsory*
• Moses, Dirk A., Genocide and Settler Society in Australian History, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, vol. III, p. 140–181Compulsory*
• Musial, Bogdan, The 'Polish Operation' of the NKVD: The Climax of the Terror against the Polish Minority in the Soviet Union, Part of: Journal of contemporary history.., vol. 48, no. 01, 2013, p. 98–124Compulsory*
• Naimark, Norman M., Fires of hatred: ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001Compulsory* (pp. 85–107.)
• Scianna, Bastian Matteo, Reporting Atrocities: Archibald Reiss in Serbia, 1914-1918, Part of: Journal of Slavic military studies., vol. 25, no. 04, 2012, p. 596–617Compulsory*
• Straus, Scott, Second-Generation Comparative Research on Genocide, Part of: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, vol. 59, no. 03, 2007, p. 476–501Compulsory*
• Zimmerer, Jürgen, Colonial Genocide: The Herero and Nama War (1904-1908) in German Southwest Africa, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, vol. III, p. 207–227Compulsory*

* Compulsory