TY - JOUR
AU - Egorov, Boris
AB -  Azadovskii and Egorov From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism: Stalin and the Impact of the “Anti-Cosmopolitan” Campaigns on Soviet Culture ✣ Konstantin Azadovskii and Boris Egorov n the Soviet Union the “anti-cosmopolitan” campaigns of the late 1940s and early 1950s were a taboo subject for many years afterward. Even during the “thaw” under Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet publications made no mention of the campaigns. Only with the advent of glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s was the topic ªnally discussed in Soviet newspapers and journals, beginning with an article in the journal Zvezda.1 This initial article was followed by numerous other articles and discussions on Soviet television, which brought to light new information about the events of 1948–1949. Those events, spurred initially by the anti-Western thrust of Soviet policy during the early Cold War, are the subject of this article. The article will trace the origins and evolution of the anti-cosmopolitan campaigns and will then recount the purge of the Philological Faculty at Leningrad State University in 1948–1949. The events in Leningrad provided a microcosm of what was occurring in the Soviet Union at large. This episode is useful in showing how the external demands 
TI - From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism: Stalin and the Impact of the “Anti-Cosmopolitan” Campaigns on Soviet Culture
JF - Journal of Cold War Studies
DO - 10.1162/152039702753344834
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/mit-press/from-anti-westernism-to-anti-semitism-stalin-and-the-impact-of-the-SD9B5P1k1t
SP - 66
EP - 80
VL - 4
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -