In the monograph of HSE Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences I. V. Krivushin, for the first time in Russian historiography, a comprehensive analysis of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, its historical background and causes is carried out, the methods of its implementation, the main organizers and participants, and the role of the media in the genocide are identified and Christian churches. The study, based on a large array of sources, shows how the “discourse of genocide” was formed, how traditional administrative structures were transformed into mechanisms of mass extermination of “enemies” and their “accomplices”, how the consciousness of the people involved in it changed, in what forms resistance to genocide was carried out and in what ways it was suppressed, what were the strategies of destruction and survival strategies, what were the reasons for the indifference of the UN, foreign states and world public opinion. For a wide range of readers, primarily political scientists, historians, ethnologists, international relations specialists, psychologists, sociologists and journalists.