Intellectual Soviet Antisemitism Flourishes
RABINOVICH, ELIEZER M.
Intellectual Soviet Antisemitism Flourishes ELIEZER M. RABINOVICH Soviet antisemitism disguised as Russian nationalism, what Rudensky describes as the second and more virulent type of...
...Habmovich now lives in New Jersey and works at AT&T Bell Laboratories...
...Shafarevich urges a strong defense against the Small Nation to save the Big Russian Nation...
...These actions of the Jews naturally followed from their intrinsic hatred of other nations and their philosophy of the chosen people...
...Unfortunately, Shafarevich is not alone among the Russian intellectuals...
...Shafarevich's book reviews and rebuffs socalled "Russophobic* views on Russian history that describe Russia as a "nation of slaves loving cruelty and bowing to a strong hand," He states that revolutions are always caused by a relatively small circle of people called the "Small Nation," whose own culture is hostile to the majority, the "Big Nation...
...He says that today Russophobic views are promoted by the same Small Nation, and contemporary Russian youth is defenseless against the ideology of this Small Nabon, which, he says, is responsible for previous Russian catastrophes in this century...
...This Small Nation is preparing the final Holocaust after which the Russian people will cease to exist...
...The Bolshevik Revolution and socialism were not intrinsic parts of Russian destiny but were distortions brought upon Russia by such a Small Nation, consisting, he tells us, mainly of Jews who hated Russia, Shafarevich contends that after the revolution, Jews in the Soviet leadership were mostly responsible for the destruction of Russian culture and the Orthodox Church...
...In the past Shafarevich had never done anything that would mark him as an antisemite and his scientific and public standing makes him a spokesperson and leader of a significant portion of the Russian intellectual elite...
...Intellectual Soviet Antisemitism Flourishes ELIEZER M. RABINOVICH Soviet antisemitism disguised as Russian nationalism, what Rudensky describes as the second and more virulent type of antisemitism...
...Academy of Sciences and of the London Royal Society, was in the 1970s a dissident...
...Shafarevich, a well-known and brilliant Soviet mathematician, an associate member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a member of the U.S...
...Efiezer M. Rtbinovich is a materials scientist who grew up in the Soviet Union He emigrated with his wife and daughter in 1974 and until 1981 lived in Israel...
...together with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, contributed to the unofficial collection From Under the Rocks...
...One important example of this trend is Igor Shafarevich's book Russophobe published by Russischer Nationaler Verein in Munich and in the Soviet magazine Nash Sovremennik (Our Contemporary...
...Similar views were expressed by the writer Valentin Rasputin who was invited last year by Mikhail Gorbachev to join his now disbanded Presidential Council...
...is taker up by some of the Soviet Union's most influential intellectuals...
...At that time he joined the Committee for Human Rights in the U.S.S.R., and...
Vol. 16 • August 1991 • No. 4
