{"product_id":"class-war-or-race-war-9781032577333","title":"Class War or Race War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClass War or Race War\u003c\/em\u003e 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and deconstruct, the origins of this myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith intensive use of historical documents, memoirs and the related historiography, the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute.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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Anti-Semitism as a window to the \u003ci\u003epossible \u003c\/i\u003ehistory \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Perceptions of a pogrom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Evacuation and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Jewish Communism versus Bolshevik anti-Semitism or the Quest for the Right Adjective \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Post-war anti-Jewish violence in the collective memory of Soviet Jewry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Evacuation and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Other inner frontlines: Housing, hunger, and food supply in Jewish memoirs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. The rising Jewish self-esteem \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. The Selected but not elected The Jewish Antifascist Committee and the rise of Soviet-Jewish national pride. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Contemporary echoes of the Holocaust \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Anti-Semitism or inner frontlines on the front – The Red Army's soldiers on the Jewish question \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Jews remembering Jews on the other side of the front-line in the post-war period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. The spontaneous \"Us\" and \"Them\" in a pogrom in Uzbekistan through the eyes of a Soviet Jewish child \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Class and\/or race \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019124900183,"sku":"9781032577333","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032577333.jpg?v=1750779384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/class-war-or-race-war-9781032577333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}