Stalin's secret pogrom : the postwar inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee / edited and with introductions by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimire P. Naumov ; translated by Laura Ester Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubenstein, Joshua.

Naumov, V. P. (Vladimir Pavlovich)

Series:

Annals of Communism.

Annals of Communism

Standardized Title:

Nepravednyĭ sud. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.

Trials (Political crimes and offenses).

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--Soviet Union.

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry.

Judicial error--Soviet Union.

Judicial error.

Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union.

Jews.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews.

World War, 1939-1945.

Evreĭskiĭ antifashistskiĭ komitet v SSSR--Trials, litigation, etc.

Evreĭskiĭ antifashistskiĭ komitet v SSSR.

Lozovskiĭ, A., 1878-1952--Trials, litigation, etc.

Lozovskiĭ, A.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 527 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of Moscow's Lubyanka prison. The defendants were falsely charged with treason and espionage because of their involvement in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and because of their heartfelt response as Jews to Nazi atrocities on occupied Soviet territory. Stalin had created the committee to rally support for the Soviet Union during World War II, but he then disbanded it after the war as his paranoia mounted about Soviet Jews. For many years, a host of myths surrounded the case against the committee. Now this book, which presents an abridged version of the long-suppressed transcript of the trial, reveals the Kremlin's machinery of destruction. Joshua Rubenstein provides annotations about the players and events surrounding the case. In a long introduction, drawing on newly released documents in Moscow archives and on interviews with relatives of the defendants in Israel, Russia, and the United States, Rubenstein also sets the trial in historical and political context and offers a vivid account of Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on the Translation

Chronology

INTRODUCTION. Night of the Murdered Poets

PART ONE. Court Record of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court, May 8-July 18,1952

Testimony by the Defendants

ISAAC FEFER

EMILIA TEUMIN

PERETZ MARKISH

DAVID BERGELSON

LEYB KVITKO

DAVID HOFSHTEYN

JOSEPH YUZEFOVICH

SOLOMON LOZOVSKY

BORIS SHIMELIOVICH

SOLOMON BREGMAN

Statements by Isaac Fefer and Joseph Yuzefovich in Closed Judicial Session

SOLOMON BREGMAN CONTINUED

LEON TALMY

ILYA VATENBERG

KHAYKE VATENBERG-OSTROVSKAYA

BENJAMIN ZUSKIN

LINA SHTERN

Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 26

Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 27

Experts' Testimony in Closed Judicial Session, June 28

Determination Regarding the Defendants' Petitions

LINA SHTERN CONTINUED

ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY

Determination to Separate Solomon Bregman's Case

Statement by Isaac Fefer in Closed Judicial Session

The Defendants' Final Statements

The Sentence

PART TWO. The Resolution: Post-Trial Documents

Certificate That the Sentence Was Carried Out, August 12,1952

Death Certificate for Solomon Bregman, January 23, 1953

Determination to Cease Solomon Bregman's Prosecution, June 3, 1953

Determination to Annul the Sentence and Terminate the Case of Lozovsky et al., November 22, 1955

Notes

Index

Illustrations.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73020-3

9786611730208

0-300-12939-4

OCLC:

923591547