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Author: S. Rock¹

Source: Patterns of Prejudice, Volume 35, Number 4, October 01, 2001 , pp. 64-76(13)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Holocaust denial has appeared in Russia only recently and has attracted almost no attention in the academic sphere, and relatively little from monitoring organizations. The research for this article - examining the place of Holocaust denial in contemporary Russia - was conducted over three months in Russia and on the Internet. The results indicate that the phenomenon remains of marginal significance and that the majority of material is of western origin. While there are several factors that make the development of Holocaust denial probable - the comparatively high level of antisemitism in Russia, post-Soviet suspicion of historiography and lack of education about the Holocaust - the Soviet war experience and associated anti-Nazi feeling arguably act as restraints on those who would propagate it. Rock concludes that Holocaust-denial material is of less importance than other antisemitic revisions of Russian history that have entered the mainstream of contemporary Russian society.

Keywords: antisemitism; collective memory; Holocaust denial; Internet; post-Soviet extremism; revisionism; Russia

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/003132201128811296

Affiliations: 1: University of Sussex, UK

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Russian revisionism: Holocaust denial and the new nationalist historiography