Stalinist Terror and genocide

[Harriet Murav]

Vasilii Grossman's Life and Fate is "good to think with," in
answer to your question about the parallels betweeen Stalin's
mass killings and Hitler's. For example, in the scene in which
Viktor Shtrum fills out the questionnaire about his
background, the narrator provides a commentary that links
point 5, nationality, and point 6, social class.  Victor
concludes that there is a parallel between Stalin's actions
and Hitler's. There is also the conversation between
Mostovskoy and Liss. 


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:35:46 +1100
>From: Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU  
>Subject: [SEELANGS] Stalinist Terror and genocide  
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>
>Hi All,
>
>Picking the thread of the interesting discussion of Stalinka,
I was wondering
>if Stalinist repression/terror has been theorised in terms of
genocide? That
>is has someone looked at drawing the parallels between the
Jewish Holocaust,
>Armenian massacre, Rwandan and Bosnian ethnic cleansing? I
dislike the word
>cleansing although those who performed such killings tried to
justify it in
>terms of cleansing the communal body of the nation. Can
Stalin-time killings
>be called genocide? Is the term genocide appropriate to
describe, theorise
>and understand those tragic events?
>
>Would be grateful for any comments?
>
>Thanks
>
>Subhash
>
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