Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914–1945

Contents

v Chapter 1. Introduction: Entangled Histories in the Age of Extremes 1 Michael David-Fox Chapter 2. “A Belgium of Our Own”: The Sack of Russian Kalisz, August 1914 13 Laura Engelstein Chapter 3. United by Barbed Wire: Russian POWs in Germany, National Stereotypes, and International Relations, 1914–1922 39 Oksana Nagornaya Chapter 4. Iron Revolutionaries and Salon Socialists: Bolsheviks and German Communists in the 1920s and 1930s 59 Bert Hoppe Chapter 5. Back from the USSR: The Anti-Comintern’s Publications on Soviet Russia in Nazi Germany, 1935–1941 83 Jan C. Behrends Chapter 6. Return to Soviet Russia: Edwin Erich Dwinger and the Narratives of Barbarossa 109 Peter Fritzsche Chapter 7. “The Diaries of Fritzes and the Letters of Gretchens”: Personal Writings from the German-Soviet War and Their Readers 123 Jochen Hellbeck CONTENTS Chapter 8. Ehrenburg and Grossman: Two Cosmopolitan Jewish Writers Reflect on Nazi Germany at War 154 Katerina Clark Chapter 9. The Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945 176 Oleg Budnitskii Chapter 10. Mortal Embrace: Germans and (Soviet) Russians in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 228 Dietrich Beyrau Notes 241 Contributors 307 vi | contents Fascination and Enmity ...