LEADER 03910cam a22004218i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20240923143617.0 008 230708s2024 enk b 001 0 eng 010 2023031009 020 9781032577333 |q(hardback) 020 9781032577388 |q(paperback) 020 |z9781003440765 |q(ebook) 040 LBSOR |beng |erda |cLBSOR |dDLC 042 pcc 043 e-ur--- 050 00 DS134.85 |b.K415 2024 082 00 305.892/4047 100 1 Kende, Tamás |c(Historian), |eauthor. 245 10 Class war or race war : |bthe inner fronts of Soviet society during and after the Second World War / |cTamás Kende. 260 London ; New York : |bRoutledge, |c2024. 300 194 p. ; |c24 cm. 337 unmediated 490 0 Routledge studies in modern history 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: Anti-Semitism as a window to the possible history -- Perceptions of a pogrom -- Evacuation and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII -- Jewish communism versus Bolshevik anti-Semitism or the quest for the right adjective -- Post-war anti-Jewish violence in the collective memory of Soviet Jewry -- Evacuation and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII -- Other inner frontlines : housing, hunger, and food supply in Jewish memoirs -- The rising Jewish self-esteem -- The selected but not elected : the Jewish Antifascist Committee and the rise of Soviet-Jewish national pride -- Contemporary echoes of the Holocaust -- Anti-semitism or inner frontlines on the front : the Red Army's soldiers on the Jewish question -- Jews remembering Jews on the other side of the front-line in the post-war period -- The spontaneous "us" and "them" in a pogrom in Uzbekistan through the eyes of a Soviet Jewish child -- Conclusion : class and/or race. 520 "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. With intensive use of historical documents, memoirs and the related historiography, the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute. Kende goes beyond the contemporary perceptions of the "Jewish question" and antisemitism and with close reading of original documents, reconstructs the real frontlines of the Soviet society of the 1940s, which were not constructed along identity-political lines. The book reinvests the long forgotten understanding of social classes in an allegedly classless and monolithic society. The spontaneous formations of the actual frontlines in the hinterland, or on the actual fronts (battlefields, in the Red Army) lacked the participants' class consciousness, thus its occurrences in the form of conflict producing historical records were recorded as acts of antisemitism. As the book advocates, Jews could have been found on both sides of the inner frontlines of the Soviet society during, and right after the WWII. An insightful read for scholars of Soviet history, that presents a bold and challenging interpretation of the regime and its flaws - both perceived and real"-- 650 0 Antisemitism |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Jews |xPersecutions |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Jews |zSoviet Union |xSocial conditions. 651 0 Soviet Union |xRace relations. 651 0 Soviet Union |xEthnic relations. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6305_892000000000000_4047_KEN |70 |8REF |9165090OSA |bOSA |d2024-09-23 |eOSA |o305.892/4047 KEN |r2024-09-23 |w2024-09-23 |yBK |xMink Andrisnál, 2024. szept. 23. |cReference 920 01 WokVxAer 992 01 305_892000000000000_4047_KEN |bWZU_RQXZZZZZZZZZZZZ_VZVS_FLC 966 |cIn the Research Room