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Author Kende, Tamás

Title Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society During and after the Second World War
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (201 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Modern History Series
Routledge Studies in Modern History Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Anti-Semitism as a window to the possible history -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Perceptions of a pogrom -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Jewish Communism versus Bolshevik Anti-Semitism or the Quest for the Right Adjective -- Memoirs of anti-Semitic Communism: A Source from the Inside -- The Planned Deportation of Jews in the Memoirs -- Clear Cases Including Non-Historians -- Summation -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Post-war anti-Jewish violence in the collective memory of the Soviet Jewry -- Notes
Chapter 4: Evacuation and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Other inner frontlines: Housing, hunger, and food supply in Jewish memoirs -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The rising Jewish self-esteem -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Selected but not elected: The Jewish Antifascist Committee and the rise of Soviet-Jewish national pride -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Contemporary echoes of the Holocaust -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Anti-Semitism or inner frontlines on the front: The Red Army's soldiers on the Jewish question -- Notes
Chapter 10: Jews remembering Jews on the other side of the frontline in the post-war period -- Notes -- Chapter 11: The spontaneous "Us" and "Them" in a pogrom in Uzbekistan through the eyes of a Soviet Jewish child -- Notes -- Conclusion: Class and/or race -- Notes -- Sources -- Archival sources -- Press sources -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master-narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism, but tries to re-, and deconstruct the origins of this myth
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781003810575
1003810578