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Political Survivors
The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945
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[T]he greatest achievement of Kuby's book lies in its masterful analysis of the ethics of who gets to shape the narrative of historical memory... This alone makes it a compelling read for historians of any field and transforms this into a book that will have profound impact on our field for many years to come.
» Journal of Modern History
In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a "hallucinatory repetition" of Nazi Germany's most terrible crime. Les mer
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In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a "hallucinatory repetition" of Nazi Germany's most terrible crime. In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his...
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 312
- ISBN
- 9781501732799
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Winner of David H. Pinkney Prize 2020 United States and George Louis Beer Prize 2020 United States. Short-listed for Council for European Studies Book Award CES 2020 United States.
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«
[T]he greatest achievement of Kuby's book lies in its masterful analysis of the ethics of who gets to shape the narrative of historical memory... This alone makes it a compelling read for historians of any field and transforms this into a book that will have profound impact on our field for many years to come.
» Journal of Modern History
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A meticulous, nuanced look inside the deeply fraught postwar political theater in France and Europe.
» Kirkus Reviews
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A penetrating look at an arcane subject. Deeply researched and fluently written.
» The Chicago Tribune
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Political Survivors is a first-rate work of intellectual history that offers keen insights into French political history, the memories of World War II, the Resistance, and the Holocaust, and the operation of international organizations.
» H-Diplo
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Quite simply, this book is a tour de force.
» David H. Pinkney Prize citation, Society for French Historical Studies