ISBN:
9633864364
,
9789633864364
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (unpaged)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Growing in the shadow of antifascism
Keywords:
1900-1999
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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Jews Historiography
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Jews History 20th century
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Jews Persecutions
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Historiography
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Communism Historiography
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Fascism Historiography
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Holocauste, 1939-1945 - Europe de l'Est - Historiographie
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Juifs - Europe de l'Est - Historiographie
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Juifs - Europe de l'Est - Histoire - 20e siècle
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Juifs - Persécutions - Europe de l'Est - Historiographie
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Fascisme - Europe de l'Est - Historiographie
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HISTORY / Holocaust
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Communism - Historiography
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Ethnic relations
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Fascism - Historiography
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Historiography
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Jews
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Jews - Historiography
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Jews - Persecutions - Historiography
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History
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Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations
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Europe de l'Est - Relations interethniques
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Eastern Europe
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Osteuropa
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Judenvernichtung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Staatssozialismus
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Geschichtspolitik
Abstract:
"Reined into the service of the Cold War confrontation, antifascist ideology overshadowed the narrative about the Holocaust in the communist states of Eastern Europe. This led to the Western notion that in the Soviet Bloc there was a systematic suppression of the memory of the mass murder of European Jews in the. Going beyond disputing the mistaken opposition between "communist falsification" of history and the "repressed authentic" interpretation of the Jewish catastrophe, this work presents and analyzes the ways as the Holocaust was conceptualized in the Soviet-ruled parts of Europe. The authors provide various interpretations of the relationship between antifascism and Holocaust memory in the communist countries, arguing that the predominance of an antifascist agenda and the acknowledgement of the Jewish catastrophe were far from mutually exclusive. The interactions included acts of negotiation, cross-referencing, and borrowing. Detailed case studies describe how both individuals and institutions were able to use anti-fascism as a framework to test and widen the boundaries for discussion of the Nazi genocide. The studies build on the new historiography of communism, focusing on everyday life and individual agency, revealing the formation of great variety of concrete, local memory practices"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Part One: Historiography -- Part Two: Sites of memory -- Part Three: Artistic representations -- Part Four: Media and public debate.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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