The Holocaust in the East - Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses

This book explores little-known dimensions of the Holocaust on Soviet territory: how the Soviet state and citizens reacted to the annihilation of the Jewish population and how to understand the role of local participants.

About the author

Michael David-Fox is professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the department of history, Georgetown University. He is the author of Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921�41 and Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918�29. With Peter Holquist and Alexander M. Martin, he coedited Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914�45.

Summary

This book explores little-known dimensions of the Holocaust on Soviet territory: how the Soviet state and citizens reacted to the annihilation of the Jewish population and how to understand the role of local participants.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael David-Fox (Editor), Peter Holquist (Editor), Alexander Martin (Editor), Alexander M Martin (Editor), Alexander M. Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2014
• EAN: 9780822962939
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6293-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 432 g
• Series: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies; Pitt Series in Russian and Eas; Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies; Russian and East European Stud; Pitt Series in Russian and Eas; Russian and East European Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)