Crucibles of Power
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An illuminating new history of World War II–era Smolensk, a region
at the crossroads of the two great dictatorships of the twentieth
century. During the Cold War, the Smolensk Archive held the only
collection of Communist Party documents available to Western
scholars, becoming the foundation for generations of scholarship on
Soviet history. Crucibles of Power returns to the Smolensk Region
with fresh eyes and fresh sources.Prizewinning historian Michael
David-Fox traces the experiences of Smolensk residents between the
interwar years and the end of World War II, a period during which
the city and region passed from Stalinist rule to Nazi occupation
and back. The result is a revelatory examination of choice and
power under dueling forms of murderous totalitarianism. Exploring
the life-and-death decisions of a fascinating cast of
characters—from young women in the Communist Youth League to a
defense lawyer during Stalin’s Great Terror who became Smolensk’s
collaborationist mayor during the German occupation—David-Fox shows
how deeply the Stalinist and Nazi regimes relied on the cooptation
of average citizens motivated by greed and need, but always within
the orbit of ideology.Challenging today’s Russian nationalist
narrative of heroic WWII resistance, he finds that large numbers of
Russians aided the Nazi occupation of Smolensk in order to protect
themselves, secure their own self-interest, or pursue vendettas
against a Soviet state they found no less corrupt or oppressive
than its German foe. At a time when much of the world is tilting
away from liberal democracy and toward authoritarianism, Crucibles
of Power masterfully unravels the threads of dictatorial rule.
Smolensk emerges as a laboratory for understanding the mechanics of
both outright coercion and subtler forms of power, as well as the
enabling behavior of ordinary citizens acquiescing to extraordinary
crimes.
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Harvard University Press ,
Michael David-Fox
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Harvard University Press,
Michael David-Fox
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Slovart
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Slovart
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