Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Partial Answers
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,2 (2005) 153-182
Schlagwort(e):
Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡,
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Kuznetsov, Anatoli Vasilevich.
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Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Russian literature History and criticism
Kurzfassung:
Deals with the issue of official Soviet repression of the specifically Jewish aspect of the Nazi mass murders on Soviet soil, i.e. with the silencing of the Holocaust. Notes how the topic of Babii Yar became the focus of public debate on this question. Discusses works of literature by Ilya Ehrenburg, Lev Ozerov (Goldberg), Vasilii Grossman, Yevgenii Yevtushenko, Anatolii Kuznetsov, and Anatolii Rybakov, as well as ideas of Jürgen Habermas and Ágnes Heller about Holocaust memory. Notes the simultaneous increased attention to the suffering of the Jews, along with the increase in official antisemitism. Perestroika marked the peak of Soviet discourse on Babii Yar. Grossman and Kuznetsov drew parallels between Stalinism and Nazism. Maintains that Yevtushenko's anti-antisemitic poem focused less on the Jewish victims than on Russian universalism, while Rybakov's novel "Heavy Sand" highlighted the Jewish victims whose memory Soviet ideology had attempted to murder.
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