The Phoenix Effect of State Repression
Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3578680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evgeny Finkel (0000-0001-8184-021X, George Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 339-353 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000305541500009x |
| OpenAlex | W2108006399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 73 |
Why are some nascent groups able to organize sustained violent resistance to state repression, whereas others quickly fail? This article links the sustainability of armed resistance to a largely understudied variable-theskillsto mount such a resistance. It also argues that the nature of repression experienced by a community creates and shapes these crucial skills. More specifically, the article focuses on a distinction between selective and indiscriminate state repression. Selective repression is more likely to create skilled resisters; indiscriminate repression substantially less so. Thus, large-scale repression that begins at timethas a higher chance of being met with sustained organized resistance att +1if among the targeted population there are people who were subject to selective repression att-1. The article tests this argument by comparing the trajectories of anti-Nazi Jewish resistance groups in three ghettos during the Holocaust: Minsk, Kraków, and Białystok
Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Judaism · Political science · Psychological repression · Resistance (ecology · State (computer science · The Holocaust · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Ecology · Genetics · History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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Regime Rhetoric and Protests
Resistance is mobile
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Hitler's willing executioners
From mobilization to revolution
Contentious Performances
Regimes and Repertoires
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Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Resistance and Rebellion
Leaders at War
Aspects of the dragonworld
Threat (And Opportunity)
How Social Movements Die
Inventing the Enemy
Why Muslims Rebel
Sarajevo Under Siege
Clandestine Political Violence
Networks of Rebellion
A Theory of Fields
The Rebel's Dilemma
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics
Power in Movement
A Historical Injustice
Draining the Sea by Filling the Graves
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Now out of Never
Reply to Wilensky
Disappearing Social Movements
Repression Hurts
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Activist Human Capital
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