Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Melnyk, Oleksandr

Titel

Stalinist Justice as a Site of Memory: Anti-Jewish Violence in Kyiv’s Podil District in September 1941 through the Prism of Soviet Investigative Documents

Ist Teil von

• Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 2013-01, Vol.61 (2), p.223-248

Ort / Verlag

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Biblioscout - Franz Steiner Verlag Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Stalinist Justice as a Site of Memory: Anti-Jewish Violence in Kyiv’s Podil District in September 1941 through the Prism of Soviet Investigative Documents Drawing on the materials of the Soviet judicial authorities’ investigation of an anti-Jewish pogrom in Kyiv in the fall 1941, the essay explores peculiarities of Soviet retributive justice and mnemonic practices in Kyiv in the aftermath of Nazi occupation. The article makes an argument for the importance in the general structure of the investigation of the so-called “milieus of memory”, social set tings of the urban neighbourhoods where episodes of the recent dark past were widely discussed both during the Nazi rule and following the re-establishment of Soviet power. These milieus proved absolutely indispensable for the start of the case. Moreover, rather than being an unproblematic informational resource for the NKGB investigators, the narrative accounts of witnesses and perpetrators in combination with peculiarities of official information gathering exerted a profound influence on the choice of suspects, as well as the general direction and the outcome of the investigation.