Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Nationalities Papers
Angaben zur Quelle:
36,5 (2008)
Keywords:
Antisemitism
Abstract:
The Jews were the primary target of Soviet Russian ethno-nationalism or Great Russian chauvinism. Focuses on higher education in the 1970s-80s, when Jews were discriminated against educationally and professionally. Deals with the perception and impact of antisemitism, based on 22 interviews with Russian academic emigrants (half of them Jews), thus providing a qualitative picture by victims and witnesses. The phenomenon was a case of elite cleansing or replacement. Antisemitism was perceived as systematic, tangible, and permanent. It entailed dismissal based on quotas, and carte blanche permission for local administrators to discriminate according to their understanding of the anti-Jewish state policy. Long-range emotional damage was caused to the victims, who sometimes adopted a sense of inferiority and often adopted one of helplessness and/or disillusionment. Antisemitic inertia continued even into Gorbachev's rule.
DOI:
10.1080/00905990802373520
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