Stalinist Terror and genocide

[Владимир Шацев]

It is almost correct. However not for all periods of Stalin's reign. In 20-30ies international ideas were very popular among the soviets. Russian not well known poet Sergei Osipov said :"Stalinism is a triumph of mediocrity 
on  the international ground. Fascism is a triumph of mediocrity on national ground." 

There  was  a difference.                   After
the WW2 of Stalinism became fascism,became it's substitutor. It is just the same thing that V.Grossman felt.
Vladimir Shatsev

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From: Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:08:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Stalinist Terror and genocide

> 
> Yes, I agree - and I shall take the opportunity to mention that my
> translation, which has not been very well distributed in the USA recently,
> is to be republished in May 2006 by NYRB Classics.
> 
> R.
> 
> > 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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