Russian personality types

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sat Jan 26 21:28:36 PST 2002



>CB: Not mistaken, but the Russian personality type produced
something that was the opposite of anti-Semitism , too: socialist revolution. What do you make of the fact that this Russian personality type was en masse in a population that carried out the main socialist revolution in history ?

Notice the plural> personality types. I prefer the term, character structure. Anyway, for anti-semitism in the fSU see, http://www.yale.edu/annals/Reviews/review_texts/Brumberg_on_Rubenstein_NYT_0 6.15.01.htm http://www.yale.edu/annals/Books_descriptions.htm Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (2001) Based on V. P. Naumov’s work in Russian, Nepravedny sud (Moscow, 1994), this volume tells the little-known story of the liquidation of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) in August 1952. This crucial event in the history of anti-Semitism is inseparable from the European Holocaust that preceded it and Stalin’s infamous "Doctors’ Plot" of 1953.

Editors: Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA; Vladimir P. Naumov, The Presidential Commission on the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression

Principal archive: Archive of the President of the Russian Federation

(Newest volume in the series,btw, Enemies Within the Gates? The Comintern and Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939 (2001) by William J. Chase This compelling work of documentary history tells a story of idealism betrayed, a story of how the Comintern (Communist International), an organization established by Lenin in 1919 to direct and assist revolutionary movements throughout the world, participated in and was ultimately destroyed by the Stalinist repression in the late 1930s. Presenting and drawing on recently declassified archival documents, William J. Chase analyzes the Comintern’s roles as agent, instrument, and victim of terror.

Principal archive: RGASPI

For additional materials related to this book, visit www.yale.edu/annals/Chase/intro.htm Recommended by Grover Furr, the nutty Maoist lit critter! If he can read it, can Chaz?)

Birobidzhan Stalin's Forgotten Zion ... The story of the Soviet Zion sheds light on a host of important historical and comtemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture. Presented ... http://www.birobidzhan.swarthmore.edu/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Soviet+anti-semitism+

http://pub57.ezboard.com/fnewamericanismfrm12.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
>A Critique of the Charge of Anti-Semitism: The moral and political
legitimacy of criticizing Jewry

As the distinguished scholar, Noam Chomsky, has noted elsewhere, even in open democratic societies such as ours, which lack the cruder forms of ideological control, there is still a public orthodoxy: a set of assumptions, ideas, and doctrines which is rarely, if ever, questioned. See 1 A key aspect of the public orthodoxy is the psychosocial taboo. The latter can be defined as a private emotional aversion and a public social ban attached to certain modes of thinking and public criticism....A more contemporary example is the case of Marxism-Leninism in the Soviet Union. Every Soviet citizen is aware that to criticize the Communist party or its ideological doctrines exposes one to charges of bourgeois corruption," Anti-Soviet slander," and Retrogressive counterrevolution," and corresponding censure and punishment...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1415 STALIN'S ANTI-SEMITISM By Shimon Redlich, Reply by Robert Conquest In response to "Stalin and the Jews" (July 11, 1996)

letchar ... the memory of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, leaders of the Jewish ... much of the anti-Semitism now burning in the Soviet Union and Eastern ... www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol3/No4/letchar.html Michael Pugliese, that s/b enuf to chew on...



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