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Slavic Review

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-52

  Weiner, Amir ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2696980     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. On contemporaries' equation of the Soviet regime with the Nazis, see Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Princeton, 2000), 193-195
2. Nehemiah Robinson, The Genocide Convention: Its Origins and Interpretation (New York, 1949), 15.
3. The official amendment offered by the Soviet delegation called for extending the definition of genocide to include "national-cultural genocide," which consisted of: "a) a ban on or limitation of the use of national language in public and private life; a ban on instruction in the national language in schools; b) the liquidation or ban on printing and distributing books and other publications in national languages; c) the liquidation of historical or religious monuments, museums, libraries, and other monuments and objects of national culture (or religious cult)." Aron Naumovich Trainin, "Bor'ba s genotsidom kak mezhdunarodnym prestupleniem," Sovetskoe gosudarstvo i pravo 5 (May 1948): 4, 6, 14.
4. This is the main point driven home by Yuri Slezkine in "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 52, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 414-52.
5. Jonathan Bone, "Asia Stops Here: Border-Zone Slavicization and the Fate of the Far East Koreans, 1925-1937" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, 18-21 November 1999);
6. Gabor Rittersporn, "'Vrednye elementy,' 'opasnye menshinstva' i bolshevistskie trevogi: Massovye operatsii 1937-1938 gg. i etnicheskii vopros v SSSR," in Timo Vikhavainen and Irina Takala, eds., Vsem'e edinoi: Natsionaľnaia polilika partii bo'lshevikov i ee osushchestvlenie na Severo-Zapade Rossii v 1920-1950-egody (Petrozavodsk, 1998), 115.
7. Norman Naimark, Fires of Haired: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge, Mass., 2001), 103-104
8. On Nazi policies in the Caucasus, see Alexander Dallin, German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945: A Study of Occupation Policies, 2d rev. ed. (London, 1981), 226-75.
9. Plausibly, most fatal for these groups were the German appeals to Bashkir and Tatar soldiers to defect from the Red Army and a 21 February 1943 article in Joseph Goebbels's weekly, Das Reich, that spoke of the many "new allies" among these nationalities who had remained behind when the German troops left. Dallin, German Rule, 251n2, 271-272
10. Alfred Rieber, "Persistent Factors in Russian Foreign Policy," in Hugh Ragsdale, ed. and trans., Imperial Russian Foreign Policy (Cambridge, Eng., 1993), 357-58. On the dilemma of Russian colonists nativized by indigenous populations in northern Siberia,
11. see Wllard Sunderland, "Russians into Iakuts? 'Going Native' and Problems of Russian National Identity in the Siberian North, 1870s-1914," Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 806-25.
12. Christopher R. Browning, "Beyond 'Intentionalism' and 'Functionalism': The Decision for the Final Solution Reconsidered," in Browning, The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution (Cambridge, Eng., 1992), 86-121;
13. Christian Gerlach, "The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews," Journal of Modern History 70, no.4 (December 1998): 759-812.
14. Peter Holquist, "State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism," in Amir Weiner, ed., Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Politics in a Comparative Framework (Stanford, 2002), 23-32.
15. Holquist, "State Violence as Technique"; Kathleen E. Smith, Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR (Ithaca, 1996); the post-Stalin re-exile, amnesties, and rehabilitations of those slated in 1948-1950 for permanent exile are dealt with in Amir Weiner, "The Return from the Gulag: The Soviet Western Frontier, 1956-57" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., November 2001).
16. Lynne Viola, "Tear the Evil from the Root: The Children of Spetspereselentsy of the North," Studia Slavica Finlandensia 17 (April 2000): 34-72;
17. Volodymyr Serhiichuk, ed., Desiať buremnykh lit: Zakhidnoukrains'ki zemli v 1944-1953 rr. Novi dokumenty i materialy (Kiev, 1998), 721-22;
18. Weiner, Making Sense of War, 202.
19. Margarete Buber, Under Two Dictators, trans. Edward Fitzgerald (New York, 1949), 215.
20. For another exemplary foray by a Germanist into east European historiography, see Geoff Eley, "Remapping the Nation: Revolutionary Upheaval and State Formation in Eastern Europe, 1914-1923," in Peter J. Potichnyj and Howard Aster, eds., Ukrainian-Jev Ńsh Relations in Historical Perspective (Edmonton, 1988), 205-246
21. See the judicious observations of Hans Rogger, Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, 1986), 35-39.
22. Yuri Slezkine, "N. Ia. Marr and the National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics," Slavic Revieiu 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 857-62.
23. For a good treatment of the German-Soviet collaboration and its breakdown, see Paul Weindling, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945 (Oxford, 2000), 183-208.
24. Lobashev quoted in Mark Adams, "The Soviet Nature-Nurture Debate," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and Soviet Social Order (Cambridge, Mass., 1990), 121.
25. Triroda pravonarushenii," Izvestiia, 18 July 1968.
26. Richard T. de George, "Biomedical Ethics," in Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order, 220.