Jürgen Zarusky

Jürgen Zarusky (born April 28, 1958 in Miesbach ; † March 4, 2019 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Life

Zarusky studied history, German and social studies to become a teacher, which he completed in 1987 with the first state examination. Then he began doctoral studies, and in 1990 with a thesis on the German Social Democrats and the Soviet model 1917-1933 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich doctorate . The doctoral supervisor was Gerhard A. Ritter . Zarusky was a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich and editor of the institute's magazine Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . At the IfZ, Zarusky carried out a research project on the comparative investigation of the political justice system under Lenin , Stalin and Hitler . He was also a lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . Together with Hartmut Mehringer he developed the microfiche edition "Resistance as 'High Treason'. The proceedings against German Reich citizens before the Reich Court, the People's Court and the Reich Court Martial".

His main research interests were the history of National Socialism and Stalinism as well as totalitarianism research and the comparison of dictatorships . He was critical of Timothy Snyder's sensational book Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin . He came to the conclusion that the "Bloodlands" are not a historical landscape, but a synthetic construct.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• The German Social Democrats and the Soviet Model 1917–1933. Ideological debate and foreign policy concepts . Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55928-1 (also dissertation, University of Munich 1990).
• with Hartmut Mehringer : Resistance as “high treason” 1933–1945. The proceedings against German Reich citizens before the Reich Court, the People's Court and the Reich Court Martial . Microfiche edition and index tape. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-33676-4 .
• with Walter Wagner : The People's Court in the National Socialist State. With a research report for the years 1974 to 2010 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-54491-6 .

Editorships

• The Stalin Note of March 10, 1952. New sources and analyzes. With contributions by Wilfried Loth , Hermann Graml and Gerhard Wettig . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-64584-6 .
• Stalin and the Germans. New research contributions . Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57893-5 .
• with Johannes Hürter : Occupation, Collaboration, Holocaust. New Studies on the Persecution and Murder of European Jews . Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58728-9 .
• with Andreas Wirsching , Alexander Tschubarjan, Viktor Ischtschenko: Remembrance of dictatorship and war. Focal points of cultural memory between Russia and Germany since 1945 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 107). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040476-0 .
• with Martin Zückert, Volker Zimmermann: Partisans in World War II. The Slovak National Uprising in the Context of the European Resistance Movements (= Bad Wiesseer Meetings of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 37). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-37315-6 .

literature

• Andreas Wirsching: Jürgen Zarusky (April 28, 1958 - March 4, 2019). Historian of the dictatorship in the 20th century. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 67 (2019), pp. 499–506.
• Helmut Altrichter: Jürgen Zarusky (1958–2019) Obituary. In: Jahrbücher für Geschiche Osteuropas , Vol. 67 (2019), Issue 4, pp. 708–709.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Zarusky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reviews of works by Jürgen Zarusky at perlentaucher
• Site by Jürgen Zarusky at the IfZ
• Project of the Catholic University of Eichstät-Ingolstadt: Political Justice under Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. Comparative studies on rule and legal practice in the Soviet Union and the Third Reich by Jürgen Zarusky at the IfZ.
• Jürgen Zarusky: The Stalinist and National Socialist “justice”. A sketch of the problem from a comparative dictatorship perspective (PDF; 257 kB) . Lecture at the Catholic University of Eichstätt on July 13, 1999, published in: Leonid Luks; Donal O'Sullivan (Ed.): Russia and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. Two different ways in comparison. Cologne (inter alia): Böhlau, 2001, ISBN 3-412-04000-2 , pp. 163-192.
• Jürgen Zarusky: The Holocaust and Stalin's Crimes . In: Süddeutsche.de , June 12, 2012; in the print edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung of the same day, p. 13, under the title: The will to destruction. The Holocaust and Stalin's Crimes. A reply to Michael Wildt .

Remarks

1. ^ Obituary - Jürgen Zarusky is dead: He shaped Dachau's past politics. In: tz . March 7, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019; Mourning for Jürgen Zarusky. In: sueddeutsche.de. March 5, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Zarusky: Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands". Critical remarks on the construction of a historical landscape. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 60 (2012), pp. 1–31, here p. 2.
3. ^ Wigbert Benz : Review of: Wirsching, Andreas; Zarusky, Jürgen; Chubarjan, Alexander; Ischtschenko, Viktor (Ed.): Memory of dictatorship and war . In: H-Soz-u-Kult , October 20, 2015; Anna Kaminsky: Uncle Joe would be happy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 23, 2016, p. 8.
4. ↑ René Küpper: Review of: Zückert, Martin; Zarusky, Jürgen; Zimmermann, Volker (Ed.): Partisans in the Second World War . In: Sehepunkte 19 (2019), No. 9, September 15, 2019.