Brian Moynahan (1941–2018)
Autor von The Faith: A History of Christianity
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The author was a foreign correspondent and latterly European Editor of the Sunday Times (London). His biographies and histories include the prize-winning The Russian Century, William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life, and The Faith. He writes for several British and American newspapers. He lives in mehr anzeigen London (England). weniger anzeigen
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Stalin’s terror is drawn in vivid pictures. The NKVD activities : spying, arrests, torture and executions did not abate even when people were dying of starvation and cold in the streets. The narration switches frequently between the incredible suffering Leningrad’s citizens endured, to the front-line and the efforts to keep open the perilous supply line over Lake Ladoga by barges in summer, by lorry-convoys in winter. They were often sunk by enemy fire.
Shostakovich, his wife and children were evacuated the 1. October to Kuibyshev as the city of Samara on the Volga was then named. He finished there his 7th, the Leningrad symphony, that is inspired by the suffering, the endurance and hope of the people of Leningrad. The progress of the work and reactions to it are described. So as to perform this symphony expressing the spirit of defiance in the face of the enemy everything was mobilised. Never before or after was a concert staged under such conditions.
The book is vividly written and makes for fascinating reading. The one serious objection I have is that Moynahan equates Stalinism and Nazism, a common error of perception and judgement. The terror under Stalin was an exploitation of personal power by Stalin and the heads (Yezhov, Beria) as well as subaltern officers of the NKVD. Stalin was a ruthless dictator; anybody suspected - or just perceived - as a danger to his power he had killed or exiled to Siberia. His henchmen Yezhov and Beria were even worse.
Nazism was entirely different: it was a racist ideology that invented the idea of a superior ‘Aryan race’ while designating others, like Slavs, Romani, Jews, … as ‘subhuman’, i.e. ‘vermin’ to be enslaved or squashed and exterminated. Hitlers plan, had he won, was to raze Leningrad and Moscow to the ground and enslave any surviving population. 4* (X-21)
See also Slavoj Zizek http://www.lacan.com/zizbadman.htm on the distinction : Nazism - Stalinism :
Is the minimal difference in politics not the one between Nazism and Stalinism? In a letter to Herbert Marcuse from 20 January 1948, Heidegger wrote: "To the serious legitimate charges that you express 'about a regime that murdered millions of Jews...' I can merely add that if instead of 'Jews' you had written 'East Germans,' then the same holds true for one of the allies, with the difference that everything that has occurred since 1945 has become public knowledge, while the bloody terror of the Nazis in point of fact had been kept a secret from the German people." Marcuse was fully justified in replying that the thin difference between brutally ex-patriating people and burning them in a concentration camp is the line that, at that moment, separated civilisation from barbarism. One should not shirk from going even a step further: the thin difference between the Stalinist gulag and the Nazi annihilation camp also was, at that historical moment, the difference between civilisation and barbarism.… (mehr)