Description
" . . . a chronicle of man's bestiality to man, and therefore the few exceptional instances of courage and humanity shine forth with particular brightness." -The Russian Review
"Essential reading for any holocaust course." -Religious Studies Review
Bitter Legacy collects scholarship from America, Israel, Russia, Germany, and the Ukraine on the perpetration of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and its lasting consequences from the postwar period through post-Soviet times. Newly accessible wartime archives in the former Soviet Union provide chilling details of what happened, of collaboration with the Nazis, and of rescue efforts, too.
Describes the perpetration of the Holocaust in the USSR and probes the political and social consequences of the mass destruction of Soviet Jews.
About the Author
ZVI GITELMAN is Professor of Political Science and Director of Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present and Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930.
Book Information
ISBN 9780253333599
Author Zvi Gitelman
Format Hardback
Page Count 344
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 735g
