Warped Memory: A History of Mourning for the soviet victims

Etkind, Alexander

Publication year:

2012

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

978-84-8419-240-4

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Summary

In contrast to the Nazi terror that featured a crystal-clear boundary between the victims and perpetrators, the Soviet terror targeted many ethnic, professional, and territorial groups. It was a rule rather than exception than the perpetrators of one wave of terror became victims of another. If the Nazi Holocaust exterminated the Other, the Soviet terror was similar to a suicide.