Sowjetischer und postkommunistischer Antisemitismus : Entwicklungen in Russland, der Ukraine und Litauen

Traces the policy of the state toward the Jews, and the ideological and political bases of antisemitism, from the Russian Revolution to the present. Opposition to antisemitism and a certain latitude for Jewish culture gave way in the 1930s to suppression and the purging of Jewish officials. In the late 1940s-early 50s, persecution peaked with the "Doctors' Plot" and the murder of Jewish leaders. For Stalin, antisemitism was an instrument in the power struggle. Subsequently, persecution of Jews varied with the state of the Cold War and the personality of the Soviet leader. Jewish communal organization and culture were suppressed. Works exposing a "Zionist world conspiracy" and equating Zionism with Nazism flourished, with official endorsement. With "perestroika, " state antisemitism gradually ended. Surveys the groups and political parties now propagating antisemitism in Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania. In Russia and Ukraine, it is central only to small neo-Nazi groups; for Russian nationalist and national-bolshevist groups, it is a political tactic. The Orthodox patriarch pleads for brotherhood, but some Church bodies propagate venomous antisemitism. In Ukraine, the Church is not antisemitic. Neither state combats antisemitism vigorously. The Lithuanian independence movement is philosemitic, but the Lithuanians refuse to admit their collaboration with the Nazis in the Holocaust, balancing it against Jewish collaboration with the Soviets. Suggests that antisemitism was. 1. Aufl. viii, 533 pages ; 21 cm.