Verfasst von:	Tolczyk, Dariusz [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Blissful blindness
Titelzusatz:	Soviet crimes under Western eyes
Mitwirkende:	Garliński, Jarek [ÜbersetzerIn]
Verf.angabe:	Dariusz Tolczyk ; translated from Polish by Jarek Garliński ; expanded by the author
Verlagsort:	Bloomington, Indiana
Verlag:	Indiana University Press
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	427 Seiten
ISBN:	978-0-253-06708-1
	978-0-253-06709-8
Abstract:	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
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780253067098.pdf
	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303235333036373038317C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2
Schlagwörter:	(g)Sowjetunion    / (s)Regierungskriminalität    / (g)Westliche Welt    / (s)Öffentliche Meinung    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	NQ 1060
Sach-SW:	Europäische Geschichte
	Genocide & ethnic cleansing
	Genozide und ethnische Säuberung
	HIS032020
	HISTORY / Revolutionary
	Kriegsverbrechen
	POL061000
	Revolutionen, Aufstände, Rebellionen
	War crimes
	HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era
	HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence (see also United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800))
Geograph. SW:	Chechnya
	Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
	Russia
	Russland
	UdSSR, Sowjetunion
K10plus-PPN:	1848726651