{"product_id":"the-holocaust-in-the-east-local-perpetrators-and-soviet-responses-paperback","title":"The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael David-Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire to protect. The silence that has surrounded the atrocities committed against the Jewish population of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during World War II is particularly remarkable given the scholarly and popular interest in the war. It, too, has many causes-of which antisemitism, the most striking, is only one. When, on July 10, 1941, in the wake of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, local residents enflamed by Nazi propaganda murdered the entire Jewish population of Jedwabne, Poland, the ferocity of the attack horrified their fellow Poles. The denial of Polish involvement in the massacre lasted for decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since its founding, the journal \u003ci\u003eKritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History\u003c\/i\u003e 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 This volume combines revised articles from the journal and previously unpublished pieces to highlight the complex interactions of prejudice, power, and publicity.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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael David-Fox\u003c\/b\u003e is professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the department of history, Georgetown University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShowcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. \u003c\/i\u003eWith Peter Holquist and Alexander M. Martin, he coedited \u003ci\u003eFascination and Enmity: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Holquist\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of \u003ci\u003eMaking War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander M. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eomantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEnlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450087293106,"sku":"9780822962939","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ea0afef8dc07680d33332828f36f0988.webp?v=1778779935","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-holocaust-in-the-east-local-perpetrators-and-soviet-responses-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}