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oapen-20.500.12657-575512022-08-18T08:35:51Z Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism Bohus, Kata Hallama, Peter Stach, Stephan holocaust; history; antifascism; Eastern Europe bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTZ Genocide & ethnic cleansing::HBTZ1 The Holocaust bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000::HBLW3 Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSR Religious groups: social & cultural aspects::JFSR1 Jewish studies 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. 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 acknowledgment 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 a great variety of concrete, local memory practices. 2022-07-20T08:18:49Z 2022-07-20T08:18:49Z 2022 book 9789633864357 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57551 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789633864364.pdf Central European University Press 10.7829/9789633864364 10.7829/9789633864364 5427f84f-0815-48ff-aac8-56f6200fccab b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789633864357 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 340 6468 6468 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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. 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 acknowledgment 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 a great variety of concrete, local memory practices.
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