STALINS WAR AGAINST THE JEWS THE DOCTORS PLOT & THE SOVIET SOLUTION

By Louis Rapoport

Based on newly released archival sources and first-hand interviews never before available to historians, here is the first full account of Jewish life under Stalin's tyranny. 8-page photograph insert. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029258219
• ISBN13: 9780029258217
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"

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Stalin's plans to destroy Soviet Jewry

In the first full account of the Doctor's Plot, Louis Rapoport casts light on one of the darkest chapters of Soviet history, and explores the history behind these events. In 1952 nine doctors, six of them with Jewish names were arrested ands accused of a bizarre plot to poison the Soviet leadership. This was followed by a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria. Attacks on Jews began to appear to appear regularly in newspapers, Jewish doctors were threatened and hounded out of their jobs, mass reprisals were threatened. A letter was circulated among the leading Jewish cultural and political figures, demanding that for their own safety, from the 'deserved wrath of the Soviet people' the Jews be deported. Stalin is known to have secretly hatched a plan for the Soviet Jews, a third to be liquidated, a third to be exiled to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and a third to be forced from the country. Presiding over the plan was Lev Kaganovitch, a sinister Jewish-born Communist and Stalin's most loyal lackey, and Jewish Communist sycophant Lev Mekhlis. Kaganovitch had more blood on his hands than practically anyone else in the Soviet Union with the exception of Stalin himself, and possibly Cheka heads Yagoda and Yezhov. The author explores Stalin's childhood and youth, in which the hatred of Jews was hatched as well as the history of Marxist anti-Semitism. The dissolution of all nationalities and religions was part of the bedrock of the Communist doctrine. 'But Marx, whose parents were both descended from illustrious rabbinic lines, showed particular for the Jews and for the religion that preserved them through the millenia. "Money is the jealous God of Israel, beside which no other God may stand." Equating the universal domination of money with the "Jewish spirit", Marx sought to throw the capitalists out of the Temple, liberating society from Judaism. Long before the alleged Jewish plot discerned by Dostoevsky and the author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Marx inadvertently encouraged the anti-Semitic myth that Jews controlled the world's money markets. He portrayed the Rothschild banking family as the personification of cancerous capitalism, as would countless other socialists, and in correspondence made occasional remarks of an incipiently anti-Semitic nature, as when he expressed admiration of ancient Egypt, for expelling the "nation of lepers'." Leon Trotsky contemptuously dismissed his Jewish origin, advocating total assimilation of the Jewish people into the Soviet population. The ruthless Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party considered all Jewish organizations a contradiction to Marxism, and counterrevolutionary, and ruthlessly rounded up and imprisoned members of Jewish organizations, even anti-Zionist Jewish groups like the Bund. The Yevsektsia were fanatically hellbent on destroying Zionism, Judaism and the Hebrew language, within the Soviet Empire. Nobody can deny either the prominence of Jewish Bolsheviks in the brutal Sovie