“A More Roaring Holocaust”: Holocaust, Holodomor, and Atrocity Propaganda in Soviet American Communist Media
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay analyzes the use of what the controversial author Arthur Koestler called “atrocity propaganda” by American Communist media to advance the interests of the Soviet government in the 1930s as part of the transnational political framework of the Communist International (Comintern). Specifically, the newspaper Daily Worker is examined through its deployment of the term “holocaust,” its denial of the Holodomor, and its justification of the Great Purge to understand how such propaganda can serve authoritarian states and their proxies. The author concludes that the broader Bolshevik logic of “the ends justify the means” allowed the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) press organs to use real and hypothetical capitalist crimes to provide rhetorical cover for mass atrocities committed by the Stalinist regime.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it