Lessons of History : : The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events / / Klas-Göran Karlsson.

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• VerfasserIn: Karlsson, Klas-Göran,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. This book seeks to change this by introducing an innovative analytical model of historical lessons, starting from the basic three-fold perspective that everyone simultaneously is history, shares history, and makes history. Not all history, however, is useful for extracting lessons. Here, what are called borderline historical events, which demonstrate both time-specific and time-transcending qualities, are suggested as useful didactic material. Scholarly works on the Holocaust and Soviet terror, from Raul Hilberg’s and Robert Conquest’s classical works of the 1960s, to more recent books by Jan Gross and Timothy Snyder, are analyzed to identify lessons of history, and how they have changed during a full half-century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The First Two Decades: The 1960s and 1970s -- CHAPTER 2 The 1980s: A Time of Departure and Consolidation -- CHAPTER 3 The 1990s: A Decade of Comparison and Ordinary Men’s Violence -- CHAPTER 4 The 2000s: The Entanglement Era -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index