BY IZABELLA TABAROVSKY This blog is a short version of a Wilson Quarterly article Walking in Each Other’s Shoes. In my Siberian hometown of Novosibirsk, the chances of walking out onto the street in 1977 and running into a living,…
In Russia’s World War II Commemorations, the Holocaust Remains an Unexamined Narrative
BY IZABELLA TABAROVSKY A few years ago, two Russian teenagers appeared on a Russian TV show and, when asked about the Holocaust, guessed that it was wallpaper glue. After the ensuing handwringing in the media subsided, the journalist Mumin Shakirov…
Don’t Learn from Russians about the Holocaust
BY IZABELLA TABAROVSKY What was striking for some of us long-term Russia watchers about the statement by the White House regarding the International Holocaust Remembrance Day was not just the obvious omission of references to Jews, but the reference to…
Операция «Забвение»: Как сегодняшняя Россия справляется с проблемой памяти о сталинских репрессиях
ИЗАБЕЛЛА ТАБАРОВСКИЙ Оригинал перевода вышел на сайте Intersection Read in English В России, как и на большей части постсоветского пространства, прошлое снова становитcя настоящим. Трактовки исторических проблем, связанных с коммунизмом, Второй мировой войной, Холокостом и Голодомором, подвергаются в России –…
Preserving the Memory of Stalin’s Repressions, One Person at a Time
BY IZABELLA TABAROVSKY По-русски In Russia, as in much of the post-Soviet space, the past is the present. From Ukraine, to Belarus, to Poland and Lithuania, historical narratives of communism, World War II, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor—Ukraine’s Terror-Famine—are being…