Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Shvut; Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 [19] (1996) 55-111
Keywords:
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich,
;
Shafarevich, Igor R.
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Examines ideological antisemitism in the final stages of the existence of the USSR, in two main forms: state-sponsored, official antisemitism, and dissident and opposition-based antisemitism. Traces the conceptual roots of official antisemitism from the nationalist ideologies of pre-revolutionary Russia through the post-Stalin period. Deals with antisemitism manifested in fiction and periodicals in the Gorbachev era. In this period, the borderline between the antisemitism of official ideology and that of the nationalist opposition was very thin. The antisemitism of the latter appeared in three forms: Christian-socialist, neo-Slavophile, and neo-fascist. Focuses on the attitudes toward Jews of Solzhenitsyn, Shafarevich, and the Pamyat movement. Notes that Solzhenitsyn is divided in his stances toward the Jews: respecting the State of Israel and Zionist Jews, he harbors many prejudices and mainly negative views toward the Jews of Russia. Shafarevich's stance toward the Jews is unambiguously negative. Pamyat's attitudes border on fascism.
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