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History as Written by Joseph Stalin
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Jason Arquette Professor Hirsh Blog 12 October 31st, 2017 By the time of his death, Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin was responsible for the deaths of at least three million Soviet citizens. According to the BBC article “Stalin- Purges and Praises” these deaths could more accurately be described as executions. Stalin’s murderous spree began after…
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Dan Crosson – “The Fabrication”: Japanese Denialism of the Nanking Massacre
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For this week’s blog post I was tasked with exploring denialism of war crimes. After some general searching, I found that one of the most prevalent examples is denialism of Japanese war crimes during World War II. Despite the Japanese public becoming more informed over the decades, there remains a sizable group among the population …
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Delanie Tarvin: The “Lost Cause” and Civil War Denialism
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In “The Anatomy of the Myth,” Alan T. Nolan discusses Civil War denialism, specifically focusing on the “Lost Cause” perspective. Nolan outlines the claims that Lost Cause proponents make, and then explains the purpose this view serves. First, Lost Cause proponents claim that neither the South’s secession nor the war were fought to protect slavery. …
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Losing World War One was Germ… the Bolshevik’s and Jew’s Fault.
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As we have discussed in past post, historiography can take many forms. The most basic of which simply being a different perspective of an established narrative. Historical negationism falls under the rather large umbrella of historiography. Negationism particularly refers the the denial, or negating, of a particular event, usually an atrocity or war crime, in …
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Helen Goggins: Negationism in Fiction
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Negationism is defined as, “the denial of historic crimes.” Revisionism is not the same as negationism but the two have been linked because both deal with the altering perspectives of a given topic. The two forms of conveying history are different, because revisionism focuses on exploring and informing the public on a different perspective of…
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Carter Man: Book Burning and Revisionism as Denial
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The article I read comes from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website and discusses book burning in Nazi Germany. The author begins by discussing how book burning in Germany had its start in the nineteenth century, when nationalist students of a divided Germany pushed for German unification by burning books deemed “un-German.” The author…
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North Korea and the Korean War
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Who started the Korean war in the 1950’s? Most reliable sources would tell you that it was the North Koreans who were the aggressors in the beginning of the conflict. However, this isn’t true for all sources. Ho Jong Ho wrote a book for Foreign Languages, Publishing House in Pyongyang in 1993. His intentions can …
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Cece Burger: Holocaust denialism
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For this blog, I was tasked with studying Holocaust denialism and finding an example of this form of denial revisionism. I initially examined the Wikipedia explanation of Holocaust denial to gain an understanding of the basic premise and who some actors are who have made claims attributing to denial rhetoric. I immediately found a lot …
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Cece Burger: Israeli state, Jewish perspective
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For this blog, I examined the creation of Israel from the Jewish perspective. I found a lot of articles by Jewish writers and from Jewish websites that showed their unique perspective. One article by My Jewish Learning, a website devoted to empowering Jewish discovery and scholarship, called “The Birth of Israel” examines the origins of …
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О Cоздании Израиля
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The end of World War Two saw a complex geopolitical scene develop across the globe. The United States occupied islands throughout the Pacific as well as a good portion of Western Germany and Berlin. The USSR controlled vast amounts of land that included everything from Poland and the Baltics to Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan in …
11.5 Different perspectives on Arab-Israeli Conflict
Germany and Israel: Carter Man
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I looked at an article from a German website. The article discusses the friendship between Germany and Israel today and the prospects of that friendship lasting into the future. The article is relevant to the prompt of “how did ‘x’ nationality” feel about the creation of Israel because it addresses that issue multiple times in…