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

Title
The Holocaust in the East : local perpetrators and Soviet responses / edited by Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin.
Publication
  • Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • David-Fox, Michael, 1965-
  • Holquist, Peter
  • Martin, Alexander M.
  • Gitelman, Zvi Y.
Description
xii, 265 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"This volume combines revised articles from the journal and previously unpublished pieces to highlight the complex interactions of prejudice, power and publicity.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 analyses Soviet responses to these events. The contributors view the factors that led certain local residents to participate in the extermination of their Jewish neighbours; 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."--Page [4] of cover.
Series Statement
  • Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
  • Kritika historical studies
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Holocaust as a part of Soviet history / Michael David-Fox -- Introduction : a reconfigured terrain / John-Paul Himka -- Conversing with ghosts : Jedwabne, Żydokomuna, and totalitarianism / Marci Shore -- The Soviet Union, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz / Harvey Asher -- Patterns of violence : the local population and the mass murder of Jews in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, July-August 1941 / Vladimir Solonari -- "Total annihilation of the Jewish population" : the Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941-45 / Karel C. Berkhoff -- People and procedures : toward a history of the investigation of Nazi crimes in the USSR / Marina Sorokina -- An analysis of Soviet postwar investigation and trial documents and their relevance for Holocaust studies / Diana Dumitru -- A disturbed silence : discourse on the Holocaust in the Soviet West as an anti-site of memory / Tarik Cyril Amar -- The Holocaust in the East : participation and presentation / Zvi Gitelman.
ISBN
  • 9780822962939 (pbk.)
  • 0822962934 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2013035242
OCLC
  • 857356655
  • SCSB-12127593
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library