Antisemitism and Its Opponents in the Russian Press: From Perestroika until the Present
Theodore Friedgut (1994). The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SISCA).
The article examines antisemitism and the reaction to it in the Russian press as the Soviet era came to an end in the 1980s and 1990s. It is shown how newly-emerging nationalist groups, and a section of the Russian intelligentsia, centered in the literary unions of the Russian Federation, began publishing voluminous accusations against the Jews as foreign despoilers of Russian culture and/or malevolent seekers of world domination, in the spirit of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In contrast, the newly emerging public and legal attempts to challenge antisemitism in Russia are seen.