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What scholarly perspectives comparatively analyse mass-killings and genocides?

What is the content of such comparative analyses?

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This site is not for polling or open discussion. You provide criteria, people try to provide the answer. – kubanczyk Mar 1 at 3:44
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To paraphrase Stalin... Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing ten people makes you a serial killer. Killing a million people makes you a statistic. – Sardathrion Mar 1 at 8:46
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define "horrible", define "genocide". IOW specify your criteria. In pure raw numbers, the communist purges of the 20th century which killed >100 million people over a few decades (some sources say >200 million) are the worst. By individual suffering, the witch hunts of medieval Europe (which killed a few tens of thousands over several centuries) probably are a good candidate. The holocaust may hold an honorary place as mixing high numbers with suffering (though for a lot of the victims the suffering was short). – jwenting Mar 1 at 10:21
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@user37324 too many people downvote any answer on general principle that is in the least critical of communism... Sadly there's a class of people here who're not interested in history but only in political propaganda. – jwenting Mar 1 at 10:50
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The proper answer to this question would be "No". Also, the word "Horrible" is about is subjective as it gets, and we aren't supposed to do subjective questions on SE sites. Given that, I think this question was well-closed. If you like, you could try to edit it so that it can be answered in an objective way. Good luck. – T.E.D.♦ Mar 1 at 12:55
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closed as not constructive by kubanczyk, Samuel Russell, choster, Sardathrion, Felix Goldberg Mar 1 at 10:49

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