1st Edition
Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe
340 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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”... Read more
Figures, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part One Historiography, Part Two Sites of Memory, Part Three Artistic Representations, Part Four Media and Public Debate, Conclusions, Contributors
Biography
Dr. Kata Bohus is senior research advisorat the University of Tromsø
Stephan Stach is a historian at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig.
Dr. Peter Hallama is research fellow at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
