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Stalin and the Jewish Question

Extract from Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (Yale University Press 2006)

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Geoffrey Roberts
Domains: Religion & Society, Power & Politics & European History

[Stalin’s] fear of western penetration [after World War II] featured even more strongly in the purge of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC). The JAFC was one of a number of anti-fascist organisations set up by the Soviets during the Great Patriotic War. Its job was to rally support for the USSR among Soviet Jews and […]

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Geoffrey Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts is a British historian and emeritus professor of modern history at University College Cork, specialising in Soviet diplomatic and military history, particularly during World War II and the Cold War. He is widely known for his revisionist scholarship on Stalin-era foreign policy and Soviet war leadership, including the acclaimed Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 and Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Roberts is a frequent commentator on history and international affairs.

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