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Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

  • Written by Wendy Z. Goldman, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’A plaque in Russia commemorates the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, whose leaders were executed in August 1952.Adam Baker/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and over 680,000 executed.

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