Class War Or Race War - The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society During After Second World War

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.

List of contents

Content
Introduction: Anti-Semitism as a window to the possible history
Chapter 1. Perceptions of a pogrom
Chapter 2. Evacuation and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII
Chapter 3. Jewish Communism versus Bolshevik anti-Semitism or the Quest for the Right Adjective
Chapter 4. Post-war anti-Jewish violence in the collective memory of Soviet Jewry
Chapter 5. Evacuation and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII
Chapter 6. Other inner frontlines: Housing, hunger, and food supply in Jewish memoirs
Chapter 7. The rising Jewish self-esteem
Chapter 8. The Selected but not elected The Jewish Antifascist Committee and the rise of Soviet-Jewish national pride.
Chapter 9. Contemporary echoes of the Holocaust
Chapter 10. Anti-Semitism or inner frontlines on the front - The Red Army's soldiers on the Jewish question
Chapter 11. Jews remembering Jews on the other side of the front-line in the post-war period
Chapter 12. The spontaneous "Us" and "Them" in a pogrom in Uzbekistan through the eyes of a Soviet Jewish child
Conclusion: Class and/or race
Sources
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Tamás Kende is a research fellow at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He has published on the social and cultural history and historiographies of Eastern Europe. His newest book deals with the property and status rescue of the Hungarian financial elite in 1944 known as Jewish rescue.

Product details

• Authors: Tamás Kende, Tamas (Eotvos Lorand University Kende
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032577388
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257738-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Politics & government, Politics and government, History and Archaeology, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions