Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Вестник Еврейского yниверситета
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (1993) 90-102
Keywords:
Stalin, Joseph,
;
Trotsky, Leon,
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
In the early period, Trotsky described himself as a cosmopolitan; Jewish sentiments were alien to him. After the Bolshevik Revolution he opposed the appointment of Jews (including himself) to leading positions, fearing that opponents of the revolution might brand it as "Jewish". Stalin and Stalinists exploited Trotsky's Jewish descent in their struggle against the "opposition" in the 1920s. Trotsky was the first to discern the antisemitic tendency in the Communist Party and the first signs of official antisemitism in the USSR. In the 1930s he revised his views on the "Jewish problem", no longer believing in assimilation, but in territorial autonomy.
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