... a translingual approach to transnational memory of the entangled histories of the Holocaust and Soviet state terror in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on precepts of multilingualism that are more than merely additive, the analysis foregrounds Petrowskaja’s innovative contributions to translingual and even...

...: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1967); Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West (New York: Free Press, 1994); Sean McMeekin, The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West (New Haven, CT...

... Cristina Cuevas-Wolf Communism in the Soviet Union under Stalinist dictatorship, according to Kasper Braskén, differed from communism as a radical social movement in noncommunist states, such as Weimar Germany. Another significant differ- ence, for Braskén, is between the Kommunistische Partei...

... of an oppositional culture. 3 However, the time line, members, status, and scope of activities of the Budapest School cannot be clearly and unambiguously defined. Lukács taught at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest for a couple of years after the Second World War, but due to his role in the 1956 anti-Soviet...

...- right sentiment by banning Mein Kampf and Nazi insignia, outlawing a small neo-Nazi party, co-opting right-wing concerns and rhetoric on issues such as German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union and German expellees from Poland and Czechoslovakia, and reintegrating ex-Nazis into politics...

... it as a form of anti-American misinformation akin to Soviet disinformation campaigns. Although many of the European tracts were skeptical about the offi cial construction of 9/11 and the war on terror, the ques- tions they posed cannot merely be dismissed as knee-jerk anti-Americanism— not least because...

... in fact believe that capitalism and imperialism are stages completed and overcome, and that Western democracies are developing more and more into unfettered welfare states. Into this vision of a “rich world,” Enzensberger incorporates the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary (where is the GDR?), along...

... years of propagandistic comparisons, encouraged by different political systems. Long before Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon’s famous kitchen debates, competing Soviet and National Socialist states had advertised their building and housing projects as represen- tative of the better social...

... Experiments in the Bauhaus Photomontages of László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Elizabeth Otto Back in the USSR: John Heartfi eld, Gustavs Klucis, and the Medium of Soviet Propaganda...

..., as a synthesis of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, the article attempts to reveal an alternative constellation of Soviet biomechanics and reactionary anticapitalist Lebensphilosophie , united in their shared rejection of Freudian psychoanalysis. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 Walter...

...., the different interpretation in Albert Kaganovitch, “Jewish Refugees and Soviet Authori- ties during World War II,” Yad Vashem Studies 38, no. 2 (2010): 85–121. These numbers are rapidly moving targets; indeed, researchers in the Soviet Union and Israel, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust...

...., March 24, 1959 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Offi ce, 1959), 24. 7. Hunter, Brainwashing (1956), 309. 148 Conspiracy Theory in the Postwar United States War—which had painted Soviet leadership as “neurotic,” insecure, “fanati- cal,” and “impervious to the logic of reason.”8 Cold...

... allegiances in this respect are evident in his novel’s singling out a nineteenth-century realist work by the Russian artist Konstantin Savitsky, Repairing the Railroad ( fig. 1 ). In the absence of the cultural contacts he had with the Soviet Union and East Germany, he would hardly have been aware...

.... The authors explain the specific character of the camp, which was concurrently a concentration, labor, and extermination camp. They also recall an escape of Soviet inmates in the spring of 1945 and do not withhold information about the role of the local population who eagerly participated in the so-called...

... Enzensberger (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 1990), 7; W. G. Sebald, Luftkrieg und Literatur (Munich: Hanser, 1999), 18. Stephen Brockmann  71 The Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early German Democratic Republic The Soviet Occupation Zone and the early GDR were never...

... further subdivided, so that the multiplication of faces, eyes, and reflections represents a newly found subjective state of mind. In addition to what might indicate historical communism’s own perversion in the Soviet Union (i.e., the flipside of his former self), this points to a more complex...

...- ories of the war and its immediate aftermath.12 These studies have explored the air war, expulsions from the East, the sinking of refugee ships, the rape of women in the East by the Red Army, and German prisoners of war held in the Soviet Union into the 1950s. Accompanying the idea of German...

... The drawing proclaims the artist’s unbroken confidence in the promise of communism and the apparent willing- ness of thoughtful men to suffer for it stoically, no matter how oppressive the Soviet regime had become. Similarly, an objectifying evidentiary photograph made by the state could be reclaimed...

... by and large have not acknowledged his contribution to that part of the book.4 While Moishe Postone, Martin Jay, and others have made clear that the Frankfurt School’s adoption of Max Weber’s “administered world” was influenced by Pollock’s early works on the Soviet Union and his notion of “state...

... and bears little resemblance to Unter den Linden of the late 1950s in the Soviet sector. Rather than situated clearly in the former heart of the city, a symbolically laden space of both the Nazi past and new Cold War divide, the Hotel Luxor floats above a featureless stretch of the boulevard, just one node...