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




