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Record Nr.

UNINA9910584585403321

Autore

Bohus Kata

Titolo

Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism : Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Central European University Press, 2022

Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

963-386-435-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

HallamaPeter

StachStephan

Disciplina

940.53/18072

Soggetti

Communism - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Fascism - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Jews - Persecutions - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Jews - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Jews - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

HISTORY / Holocaust

Eastern Europe

Europe de l'Est Relations interethniques

Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part One: Historiography -- Part Two: Sites of memory -- Part Three: Artistic representations -- Part Four: Media and public debate.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--