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Verfasst von:Tolczyk, Dariusz [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Blissful blindness
Titelzusatz:Soviet crimes under Western eyes
Mitwirkende:Garliński, Jarek [ÜbersetzerIn]   i
Verf.angabe:Dariusz Tolczyk ; translated from Polish by Jarek Garliński ; expanded by the author
Verlagsort:Bloomington, Indiana
Verlag:Indiana University Press
E-Jahr:2023
Jahr:[2023]
Umfang:427 Seiten
ISBN:978-0-253-06708-1
 978-0-253-06709-8
Abstract:The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and other atrocities - were treated in the West as a controversial topic. With the Cold War dichotomy of Western democracy versus Soviet communism deeply imprinted in our minds, we are not always aware that these crimes were very often questioned, dismissed, denied, sometimes rationalized, and even outright glorified in the Western world. Facing a choice of whom to believe - the survivors or Soviet propaganda - many Western opinion leaders chose in favor of Soviet propaganda. Even those who did not believe it behaved sometimes as if they did. "Blissful Blindness" explores Western reactions (and lack thereof) to Soviet crimes from the Bolshevik revolution to the collapse of Soviet communism in order to understand ideological, political, economic, cultural, personal, and other motivations behind this puzzling phenomenon of willful ignorance. But the significance of Dariusz Tolczyk's book reaches beyond its direct historical focus. Written for audiences not limited to scholars and specialists, this book not only opens one's eyes to rarely examined aspects of the twentieth century but also helps one see how astonishingly relevant this topic is in our contemporary world
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Schlagwörter:(g)Sowjetunion   i / (s)Regierungskriminalität   i / (g)Westliche Welt   i / (s)Öffentliche Meinung   i / (z)Geschichte   i
Sprache:eng
RVK-Notation:NQ 1060   i
Sach-SW:HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era
 HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence (see also United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800))
 Europäische Geschichte
 Genocide & ethnic cleansing
 Genozide und ethnische Säuberung
 HIS032020
 HISTORY / Revolutionary
 Kriegsverbrechen
 POL061000
 Revolutionen, Aufstände, Rebellionen
 War crimes
Geograph. SW:Chechnya
 Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
 Russia
 Russland
 UdSSR, Sowjetunion
K10plus-PPN:1848726651
 
 
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