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Before the "Final Solution": Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland

Previous articleNext article No AccessBefore the "Final Solution": Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and PolandWilliam W. HagenWilliam W. Hagen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 68, Number 2Jun., 1996 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/600769 Views: 168Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1996 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:W. Raymond Palmer Senator Elbert D. Thomas and the Fate of European Jewry, Utah Historical Quarterly 89, no.44 (Oct 2021): 276–290.https://doi.org/10.5406/utahhistquar.89.4.0276 Literaturverzeichnis, (Oct 2019): 637–672.https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666367434.637Brendan Karch Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland, 3 (Sep 2018).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560955Janine Holc Memory Activism Challenging the Reconciliation Paradigm, (Aug 2017): 21–36.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63339-8_2Volha Charnysh Historical Legacies of Interethnic Competition, Comparative Political Studies 48, no.1313 (Nov 2015): 1711–1745.https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414015598921Kenneth B. Moss Thinking with restriction: immigration restriction and Polish Jewish accounts of the post-liberal state, empire, race, and political reason 1926–39, East European Jewish Affairs 44, no.2-32-3 (Dec 2014): 205–224.https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2014.942147Brendan Karch A Jewish “Nature Preserve”: League of Nations Minority Protections in Nazi Upper Silesia, 1933–1937, Central European History 46, no.11 (Apr 2013): 124–160.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938913000058Jennifer Kimberly Jackson Introduction: Creating the ‘Other’ in Germany and Britain - A Comparison of Discourses from the Interwar and Contemporary Periods, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 12, no.22 (Oct 2012): 363–365.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2012.01164.x By Omer Bartov Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide Bartov, The Journal of Modern History 80, no.33 (Jul 2015): 557–593.https://doi.org/10.1086/589591RYAN D. KING, WILLIAM I. BRUSTEIN A POLITICAL THREAT MODEL OF INTERGROUP VIOLENCE: JEWS IN PRE?WORLD WAR II GERMANY, Criminology 44, no.44 (Nov 2006): 867–891.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2006.00066.xPeter A. Blitstein Cultural Diversity and the Interwar Conjuncture: Soviet Nationality Policy in Its Comparative Context, Slavic Review 65, no.22 (May 2017): 273–293.https://doi.org/10.2307/4148593Michael Mann The Dark Side of Democracy, 109 (Jun 2012).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511817274William I. Brustein Roots of Hate, 8 (Jun 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499425Eric D. Weitz Racial Politics without the Concept of Race: Reevaluating Soviet Ethnic and National Purges, Slavic Review 61, no.11 (Jan 2017): 1–29.https://doi.org/10.2307/2696978William W. Hagen A “Potent, Devilish Mixture” of Motives: Explanatory Strategy and Assignment of Meaning in Jan Gross's Neighbors, Slavic Review 61, no.33 (Jan 2017): 466–475.https://doi.org/10.2307/3090296William W. Hagen Murder in the East: German-Jewish Liberal Reactions to Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland and Other East European Lands, 1918–1920, Central European History 34, no.0101 (Dec 2008): 1–30.https://doi.org/10.1163/156916101750149112William W. Hagen Mord Im Osten, (Jun 2018): 135–146.https://doi.org/10.7788/boehlau.9783412319687.135

Nationalism, interethnic relations and federalism: The case of the Sakha republic (Yakutia)

THE WAR IN CHECHNYA has forced painful reassessments of the nature of the Russian Federation. Far from enhancing 'stability', it has increased the danger of polarisation that many in Russia's republics wish to avoid. Yet assumptions of an inherent contradiction between various nationalisms and federalism may be premature. When definitions of nationalism and federalism remain flexible, room for negotiation is still possible in the Russian Federation. Some analysts trying to learn lessons from the break-up of the former Soviet Union make analogies to the Russian Federation itself. Will it survive, or is it another large and unwieldy empire whose time has passed? Did the 'parade of sovereignty declarations' begun in 1990 among Russian republics presage the demise of the Russian (Rossiiskoe) state or was it a healthy striving for greater federal balance within Russia? The sovereignty declarations, in the views of many non-Russians, were part of a dynamic of interrelated republic politics. This dynamic occurred not because of conspiracies across republic lines against the Russian centre but rather out of the hunger of many different peoples of Russia for federal rights they felt they had been long denied under Soviet rule. And for some the appetite for greater sovereignty has grown at first taste. Despite similarities, due to legacies of Soviet nationality policies and hierarchical structuring of ethnically-based regions, each case within the Russian Federation requires description and analysis in its own historical and cultural context. Certain strategic cases, for example that of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of Eastern Siberia (the Russian 'Far East'), can help to reveal the messiness and non-inevitability of secession movements. A social anthropological approach is taken here, to demonstrate why the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) case is particularly significant, how its internal interethnic relations have developed, and what this case demonstrates for larger issues of Russian federation survival. Rather than assuming that Russia is an analogue of the Soviet Union, or that Russia's recent nationality politics consistently resemble the imperial polarising style of past multi-ethnic empires, judgement is suspended.1 We argue that various national bids for sovereignty or even full independence have been

Long‐term variability of sea—air heat transfer in the North Atlantic ocean

AbstractThere is evidence that climatological variations of the ocean‐atmosphere fluxes in the North Atlantic are significant with respect to long‐term climate changes. To study year‐to‐year changes of ocean‐atmosphere interaction processes in the North Atlantic Ocean, two meteorological data sets were used: the Comprehensive Ocean‐Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) and the Soviet National Meteorological Centre (SNMC) data set for the period from 1957 to 1990. Data sets were compared with each other in order to find out set‐to‐set variations of ocean‐atmosphere interaction parameters. The next step was to calculate sea‐air interaction characteristics on the basis of one data set, but with the use of different schemes for the parameterization fluxes. Both set‐to‐set and scheme‐to‐scheme variations are significant, but at the same time annual and interannual changes in radiation and heat fluxes indicate that variability patterns are close to each other. Differences obtained in the parameters of variability were taken to determine the confidence level for future consideration of climatological variability. Long‐term changes in net air‐sea heat fluxes were explored for the period from 1950 to 1990. Results demonstrate the different character of variations in the tropics, mid‐latitudes and high latitudes. Meridional heat transport for different climatological periods has been calculated in order to discuss the variations obtained in terms of ocean circulation. Two significantly different regimes of meridional heat transport were obtained. The first regime is characterized by high values in the tropics and a sharp decrease in mid‐latitudes. The second regime is connected with relatively high values of heat transport in mid‐latitudes.

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934. George O. Liber , Stephen White

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsSoviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934. George O. Liber , Stephen White Theodore R. WeeksTheodore R. Weeks Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 67, Number 2Jun., 1995 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/245170 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1995 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934

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Book Reviews: Postmodern Ethics, Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity, Foucault's New Domains, Sociology in Question, Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology, Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction, the Art of Conversation, Understanding Social Theory, Motherhood and Modernity: An Investigation into the Rational Dimension of Mothering, Friendly Relations? Mothers and Their Daughters-in-Law, Single Women: On the Margins?, Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality,

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934, by George O. Liber

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Russians As a Minority

One result of the disintegration of the USSR is not only a new geopolitical map of a considerable part of Eurasia, but also deep crises in the status of former Soviet nationalities, in the conditions under which they evolve, and in the character of their interrelations. The imperial Soviet regime ceased to exist primarily because it was unable to fulfill the fundamental purpose of a state: to ensure the most appropriate conditions for the social existence of its citizens. The liberal-democratic reforms begun in the mid-eighties struck a blow against the totalitarian system of government and political ideology.

The Baltics

Essay| October 01 1994 The Baltics: Three States, Three Fates Paul A. Goble Paul A. Goble Paul A. Goble is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He previously served as special adviser on Soviet nationality problems at the State Department. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1994) 93 (585): 332–336. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.585.332 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Paul A. Goble; The Baltics: Three States, Three Fates. Current History 1 October 1994; 93 (585): 332–336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.585.332 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1994 by The Regents of the University of California1994 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR

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The Soviet Nationality Reader: The Disintegration in Context

"The Soviet Nationality Reader: The Disintegration in Context." History: Reviews of New Books, 22(3), p. 131

Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR. Edited by Alexander J. Motyl. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 284p. $45.00.

Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR. Edited by Alexander J. Motyl. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 284p. $45.00.

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Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934.

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934.

Assessing the Prospects of the New Soviet Successor States

The formation of fifteen nation states on the territory of the former Soviet Union poses a series of challenges to specialists in Soviet nationalities. They are asked to pronounce on the degree of stability which the new states will enjoy and assess the dangers (mainly military) and the opportunities (mainly economic) that have arisen. The background of preconceptions about nationalism on which such judgements are based is usually characterized by an ambivalence, stemming from a feeling that the dissolution of the Soviet empire into nation states was somehow natural and inevitable, and also by the condescension of mature and powerful states which believe they have outgrown nationalism and the possibly dangerous antics of their younger brothers. Consequently, analysis of the post-Soviet scene produces tentative or confused results. This article attempts to apply a common framework of analysis across all the republics of the former Soviet Union to identify some of the broad but discrete trends which the future development of these states might take. The reader will quite reasonably question whether it makes sense to compare Estonia with Tajikistan or Russia with Moldavia. In reply, it could be argued that political scientists have been presented with an unprecedented opportunity to compare states with very different historical and cultural traditions but which, by virtue of their having been part of the Soviet Union, share remarkably similar political and social structures.

Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Eurasia: An institutionalist account

The Soviet nationality regime, with its distinctive and pervasive manner of institutionalizing nationhood and nationality, has transmitted to the successor states a set of deeply structured, and powerfully conflicting,expectations of belonging. Successor state elites, with their deeply institutionalized sense of political ownership and entitlement, see the polities that bear the names of their nation — above all the territory and institutions, but also, with some ambivalence, the population as well — as “their own,” as belonging, in a fundamental sense, to them. National minorities, above all Russians, with their institutionally supported, basically ethnocultural understanding of nationhood, see themselves as belonging, in a deep if not exclusive sense, to an “external” nation; this cannot help but color and qualify, even if it does not exclude, their belonging to the would-be nation-state in which they live, and of which they (or most of them) hold citizenship. Russian state elites, finally, whose national self-understanding was not in the Soviet period embedded in, and is now only very imperfectly contained by, the institutional and territorial frame of the Russian Federation, see the Russian minorities in the non-Russian successor states as belonging, in an ill-defined yet potent sense, to the emerging Russian state. These deeply rooted and powerfully conflicting expectations of belonging — interacting, of course, with conflicts of interest engendered by state-building, regime change, and economic restructuring — will make the dynamic interplay between non-Russian successor states, Russian minorities, and the Russian state a locus of refractory, and potentially explosive, ethnonational conflict in coming years.

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934. By George O. Liber. Soviet and East European Studies, 84. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xx, 289 pp. Index. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Hard bound.

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934. By George O. Liber. Soviet and East European Studies, 84. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xx, 289 pp. Index. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Hard bound.

The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism

Soviet nationality policy was devised and carried out by nationalists. Lenin's acceptance of the reality of nations and "national rights" was one of the most uncompromising positions he ever took, his theory of good ("oppressed-nation") nationalism formed the conceptual foundation of the Soviet Union and his NEP-time policy of compensatory "nation-building" (natsional'noe stroitel'stvo) was a spectacularly successful attempt at a state-sponsored conflation of language, "culture," territory and quota-fed bureaucracy.