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Class War or Race War: The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War: The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Kende, Tamás

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

AnthropologyEastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 103257738X
ISBN13: 9781032577388
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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With intensive use of historical documents, memoirs and the related historiography, the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute.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 Soviet society during and right after WWII.

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