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Andrew Sloin, The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power Indiana Un... more Andrew Sloin, The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power

Indiana University Press, February 2017

Papers by Andrew Sloin

Judaic-Slavic Journal

The struggle against global fascism constituted a central thrust of Soviet and Comintern policy t... more The struggle against global fascism constituted a central thrust of Soviet and Comintern policy throughout the Stalin Revolution and the early 1930s. Yet even as Soviet leaders and policy makers railed against Nazi and Fascist enemies abroad, contemporaneous anti-fascist discourses produced within the Soviet Union revealed highly contradictory and ambivalent depictions of internal enemies who supposedly aligned themselves with the global fascist movement. This article focuses upon one of the most controversial manifestations of Soviet anti-fascist politics through an analysis of visual and rhetorical depictions of alleged Jewish fascists in Soviet Yiddish and Russian publications from Moscow and Minsk during the 1930s. It examines how depictions of alleged Jewish fascist collaborators, produced largely by Jewish actors in Yiddish public discourses during the 1930s, served to reinscribe “traditional” and non-Bolshevik Jewish groups – including religious Jews, Zionists, and capitalist...

Published in Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2016) Full text available at: http... more Published in Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2016)

Full text available at: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/688349)

The Stalin Revolution of 1927–28 coincided with the outbreak of antisemitic violence across the Soviet Union. While frequently treated as incidental, this article argues that the recrudescence of antisemitism offers insight into the structural dynamics that drove the Stalin Revolution and the ensuing breakneck industrialization. Drawing on critical theories of antisemitism from the Frankfurt School, this article reframes Soviet antisemitism within the context of the pan-European antisemitic turn that erupted with the global crisis of the late 1920s. In doing so, it focuses on the relationship between antisemitism and the social rupture engendered by the massive effort to expand, productivize, and rationalize Soviet labor during the Stalin Revolution. Ultimately, the article argues that this eruption of antisemitism points to the persistence of key categories of capitalist social relations—most notably, value and wage labor—that remained at the heart of production within the world’s first “postcapitalist” society.

This essay (pre-publication version) served as an introduction to a forum devoted to rethinking e... more This essay (pre-publication version) served as an introduction to a forum devoted to rethinking economy and Soviet society in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Particular attention to the relationship between the consolidation of the system of Stalinism and the Global Crisis that erupted in the mid-1920s.

The final introduction can be found at: https://kritika.georgetown.edu/past/15-1

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Jan 11, 2014

This paper (pre-publication version) examines the relationship between economic crisis and the re... more This paper (pre-publication version) examines the relationship between economic crisis and the reconstruction of Jewish politics and identity in Belorussia on the eve of the Stalin Revolution.

The final paper can be found at: https://kritika.georgetown.edu/past/15-1

East European Jewish Affairs, 2010

The paper is is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501674.2010.494042.

Frankel Institute Annual, Vol. 2012, 35-39

Reviews by Andrew Sloin

Review appeared in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 32: 1 (Fall 2013), 147... more Review appeared in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 32: 1 (Fall 2013), 147-148

This review essay examines works of Russian and Soviet Jewish History by Eugene Avrutin, Oleg Bud... more This review essay examines works of Russian and Soviet Jewish History by Eugene Avrutin, Oleg Budnitskii, and Yaacov Ro’i that focus on the relationship between Jews and the state during the “long” Russian twentieth century. The works examine this relationship in three discrete periods: the late imperial era proceeding the revolutions of 1917; the era of the Russian Civil War; and the late Soviet era of stagnation and decline. Challenging interpretations of Soviet historiography that have emphasized the open inclusion of Jews in the Soviet project, these works collectively stress the need to reconsider the persistence of racial discourses and anti-Semitism that structured relations between Jews and the state before and after the Bolshevik revolution.

The review article is published in Russian History, 42: 4 (2015), 441-452.

In Progress by Andrew Sloin

This article is currently under review.