The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (Pitt Russian East European)
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN: 0822962934
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Since its founding, the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History has led the way in exploring the East European and Soviet experience of the Holocaust. This volume combines revised articles from the journal and previously unpublished pieces to highlight the complex interactions of prejudice, power, and publicity. It offers a probing examination of the complicity of local populations in the mass murder of Jews perpetrated in areas such as Poland, Ukraine, Bessarabia, and northern Bukovina and analyzes Soviet responses to the Holocaust.
Based on Soviet commission reports, news media, and other archives, the contributors examine the factors that led certain local residents to participate in the extermination of their Jewish neighbors; the interaction of Nazi occupation regimes with various sectors of the local population; the ambiguities of Soviet press coverage, which at times reported and at times suppressed information about persecution specifically directed at the Jews; the extraordinary Soviet efforts to document and prosecute Nazi crimes and the way in which the Soviet state’s agenda informed that effort; and the lingering effects of silence about the true impact of the Holocaust on public memory and state responses.
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Nazi crimes.112 Inverting Rules, Confirming Stereotypes The most extensive Soviet treatment of the Holocaust in Lviv appeared in Roman Brodskii and Yulian Shulmeister’s Zionism—Weapon of Reaction, issued with a print run of 45,000 copies by Kameniar, a local publishing house, in 1976. As elsewhere in the Soviet Union, this period was marked by a propaganda campaign against Zionism. Thus, for 1978–79, a Lviv oblast KGB report listed 11 television and radio features, 20 articles, and 47 public.
Highest levels on down; the treatment of the annihilation of the Jews and Nazi crimes in the press, cultural production, and discourse— taking into account the most relevant ideological trends; and a particularly important “negative response” that assumes significance in the chapters to follow, the fraught silences and half-suppressed aftereffects following the cataclysm. It has long been well known that toward the end of the war the Stalinist regime began to deny the particularity of Jewish.
Wyrzykowski). In a section titled “A New Approach to Sources,” Gross argues that when dealing with Holocaust survivor testimonies, we historians should change our initial assumption from one of a priori skepticism to one of tentative affirmation—until convincing evidence suggests otherwise. The judgment is in part a response to his own previous attitude toward sources, and in particular the years it took him to absorb the implications of Wasersztajn’s account.12 This shift in initial attitude.
About the illegal activities of the Stalinist regime for many years. Nominally each member of the Extraordinary State Commission was responsible for one department (otdel). Trainin led the department that calculated atrocities committed by the German occupiers and their accomplices against Soviet citizens. Lysenko headed the department evaluating damage to collective and state farms. Vedeneev took charge of the department that 136 marina sorokina assessed damage to industry, transport,.
Oversaw an official persecution of prominent Jews in 1948. This purge led to the disbanding of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, the anti-Zionist campaign, and the Doctors’ Plot, where numerous people were forced into confessing to nonexistent counterrevolutionary crimes. But despite these high-level political cases featuring Jews, most Soviet postwar trials were intended to punish those regarded as having collaborated with Romanian and Nazi forces and to reestablish Soviet order in these.