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The anti-cosmopolitan campaign (Russian: Борьба с космополитизмом, Bor'ba s kosmopolitizmom) was an anti-Western campaign in the Soviet Union which began in late 1948[1] and has been widely described as a thinly disguised antisemitic purge.[1][2][3][4] A large number of Jews were persecuted as Zionists or rootless cosmopolitans.
- ^ a b Norwood, Stephen H. (2013). Antisemitism and the American Far Left. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 162–3. ISBN 978-1-107-03601-7.
- ^ Thus Blumenthal (2012: 93) cites “the thinly veiled antisemitic trope of the cosmopolitan” — in Blumenthal, Helaine Debra (2012). Fourteen Convicted, Three Million Condemned: The Slansky Affair and the Reconstitution of Jewish Identities After the Holocaust (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley..
- ^ Labendz, Jacob Ari (2014). Re-negotiating Czechoslovakia. The State and the Jews in Communist Central Europe: The Czech Lands, 1945-1989. Phd thesis, Washington University (read online) — p.55 (and passim).
- ^ Azadovskii & Egorov (2002).