The Holocaust in the East : local perpetrators and Soviet responses / edited by Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

David-Fox, Michael, 1965- editor.

Holquist, Peter, editor.

Martin, Alexander M., editor.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies

Kritika historical studies

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Soviet Union.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography.

Jews--Persecutions.

History.

Soviet Union.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Soviet Union--Historiography.

Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.

Antisemitism--Soviet Union.

Antisemitism.

Soviet Union--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 265 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]

Summary:

This volume combines revised articles from Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History with previously unpublished pieces to offer a probing examination of the complicity of local populations in the mass murder of Jews, perpetrate in areas such as Poland, Ukraine, Bessarabia, and northern Bukovina, and analyze Soviet responses to these events. The contributors view, the factors that led certain local residents to participate in the extermination of their Jewish neighbors, the interaction of Nazi occupation regimes with 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Reconfigured Terrain / John-Paul Himka Himka, John-Paul 1

Chapter 2 Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, Zydokomuna, and Totalitarianism / Marci Shore Shore, Marci 5

Chapter 3 The Soviet Union, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz / Harvey Asher Asher, Harvey 29

Chapter 4 Patterns of Violence: The Local Population and the Mass Murder of Jews in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, July-August 1941 / Vladimir Solonari Solonari, Vladimir 51

Chapter 5 "Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population": The Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941-45 / Karel C. Berkhoff Berkhoff, Karel C. 83

Chapter 6 People and Procedures: Toward a History of the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in the USSR / Marina Sorokina Sorokina, Marina 118

Chapter 7 An Analysis of Soviet Postwar Investigation and Trial Documents and Their Relevance for Holocaust Studies / Diana Dumitru Dumitru, Diana 142

Chapter 8 A Disturbed Silence: Discourse on the Holocaust in the Soviet West as an Anti-Site of Memory / Tarik Cyril Amar Amar, Tarik Cyril 158

Chapter 9 The Holocaust in the East: Participation and Presentation / Zvi Gitelman Gitelman, Zvi 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Gitelman, Zvi Y. Holocaust in the East: participation and presentation.

ISBN:

9780822962939

0822962934

OCLC:

857356655