The Soviet 'Doctors' Plot'―50 years on

摘要

Stalin used show trials―as well as mass murder and forced migration―to terrify and silence citizens of the Soviet Union In early 1953 Stalin planned to stage a show trial of several doctors, most of whom were Jewish and who were falsely accused of acting against the state―atrial that underlined Stalin's anti-Semitism Despite the state's exoneration of the doctors immediately after Stalin's death, persistent anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union contributed to the emigration of hundreds of thousands of Jews, including many doctors, in subsequent decades