Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (1989) 30-48
Keywords:
Trotsky, Leon,
;
Jews History
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Russian literature History and criticism
;
Antisemitism
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
Abstract:
Surveys the new literary forms of antisemitic myths and stereotypes depicting Trotsky's image in recent Soviet literature. Mentions that Trotsky's negative and demonic figure, created by Stalinist Soviet propaganda and literature, is perpetuated in novels and plays written by authors connected with conservative or ultra-nationalist trends in the "glasnost" period. Notes, however, that Trotsky's image underwent some changes in recent years; he became the prototype of the rootless Jew, without basic Russian national feelings, and the alleged instigator of anti-peasant Soviet terror. Trotsky represents, in these works, Jewish urban and intellectual groups, supposedly obsessed with the idea of an international utopia, and carrying out official Soviet anti-peasant policy.
Note:
A Hebrew version appeared in:
,
"יהודי ברית המועצות" 13, תשן
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