Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Kritika
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,1 (2005) 187-204
Keywords:
Stalin, Joseph,
;
Brent, Jonathan; Naumov, Vladimir P.
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Analyzes arguments about postwar antisemitism in the USSR, focusing on those made by Brent and Naumov in their "Stalin's Last Crime" (2003). Disagrees with the theory that Zhdanov and, later, Stalin were assassinated; guilt for Zhdanov's "murder" was one of the charges in the "Doctors' Plot". Asserts that the supposed plan for the mass deportation of Jews in the wake of the antisemitism stirred up by the "Doctors' Plot" has not been proven. Agrees, however, with Brent and Naumov that the postwar explosion of antisemitism was Stalin's last crime. Stresses that Stalin's growing distrust of Jews led not only to arrests among the Soviet Jewish intelligentsia, but also to an epidemic of chauvinism and interethnic tension in Soviet society. Recommends viewing antisemitism in the context of extreme Russocentrism and xenophobia that encompassed other non-Russian ethnic groups as well.
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