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Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes Under Western Eyes

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dariusz Tolczyk, Jarek Garliński (Translator)Publish date:2023-09-05Pages:442
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253067098ISBN-10:025306709XUPC:9780253067098Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Russia, Genocide & War Crimes, MilitaryBook Topic:Soviet Era, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.422Product ID:SC60CK32X4

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253067098ISBN-10:025306709XUPC:9780253067098Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Russia, Genocide & War Crimes, MilitaryBook Topic:Soviet Era, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.422Product ID:SC60CK32X4

Dariusz Tolczyk is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Virginia. His books include See No Evil: Literary Cover-Ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience and Gulag w oczach Zachodu [The Gulag under Western eyes].


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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