The assassination of Mikhoels and the destruction of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Golda Meir's Moscow term and the vacillations of Ilya Ehrenburg, favored by the Kremlin, the struggle against rootless cosmopolitans and the 'Doctors' Plot,' the Judeophobic 'economic' trials of the early 1960s and the surge of national consciousness after the Six-Day War, anti-Semitic narratives in Soviet propaganda and the activities of the servile Anti-Zionist Committee—all of this becomes the subject of the book's consideration.
The situation in contemporary Russia, where a surge in anti-Israeli rhetoric has recently been observed, is also addressed. The study is based on numerous archival documents, surveys, and interviews, little known to the general public.