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Stalin's Secret Pogrom - The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
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Stalin's Secret Pogrom - The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
Series: Annals of Communism
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In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews, including
five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and
convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of
Moscow's Lubyanka prison. The defendants were falsely charged with
treason and espionage because of their involvement in the Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee, and because of their heartfelt response as
Jews to Nazi atrocities on occupied Soviet territory. Stalin had
created the committee to rally support for the Soviet Union during
World War II, but he then disbanded it after the war as his
paranoia mounted about Soviet Jews. For many years, a host of myths
surrounded the case against the committee. Now this book, which
presents an abridged version of the long-suppressed transcript of
the trial, reveals the Kremlin's machinery of destruction. Joshua
Rubenstein provides annotations about the players and events
surrounding the case. In a long introduction, drawing on newly
released documents in Moscow archives and on interviews with
relatives of the defendants in Israel, Russia, and the United
States, Rubenstein also sets the trial in historical and political
context and offers a vivid account of Stalin's anti-Semitic
campaign. Published in association with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
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