{"product_id":"blissful-blindness-dariusz-tolczyk-9780253067081","title":"Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and other atrocities - were treated in the West as a controversial topic. With the Cold War dichotomy of Western democracy versus Soviet communism deeply imprinted in our minds, we are not always aware that these crimes were very often questioned, dismissed, denied, sometimes rationalized, and even outright glorified in the Western world. Facing a choice of whom to believe -the survivors or Soviet propaganda- many Western opinion leaders chose in favor of Soviet propaganda. Even those who did not believe it behaved sometimes as if they did. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlissful Blindness\u003c\/i\u003e explores Western reactions (and lack thereof) to Soviet crimes from the Bolshevik revolution to the collapse of Soviet communism in order to understand ideological, political, economic, cultural, personal, and other motivations behind this puzzling phenomenon of willful ignorance. But the significance of Dariusz Tolczyk's book reaches beyond its direct historical focus. Written for audiences not limited to scholars and specialists, this book not only opens one's eyes to rarely examined aspects of the twentieth century but also helps one see how astonishingly relevant this topic is in our contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dariusz Tolczyk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253067081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253067081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Dariusz Tolczyk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809821585663,"sku":"9780253067081","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c9ef945-6201-463d-8c0a-9505c2550e4f.jpg?v=1707927569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blissful-blindness-dariusz-tolczyk-9780253067081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}