Secrets, Lies, Mistakes: AI and Network Analysis of Late Stalinist Antisemitic Prosecutions

• In Event: Decoding the Past: Digital Methods in Eastern Europe’s Twentieth Century beyond Digitization

Abstract

This paper compares the results of network analysis based on manually structured data against AI-generated findings to evaluate the strengths and limitations of these digital methods. It also explores how gender, social ties, and other factors shaped the behavior of Jews under interrogation in Stalin’s final years.

Author

• Paula Chan, U of Oxford (UK)