About the book: 2008 / The author gives a holistic picture of the history of Jews in the territory of the former USSR, starting from the times of tsarism, during the two revolutions of 1917 and in the Stalin era. His book documents the dramatic fate of the Jews, who experienced periods of emancipation, uplift, and discrimination and persecution. The activities of Jewish organizations and parties, their liquidation by the Bolsheviks, the growth of anti-Semitism in Soviet society after the short flowering of Jewish culture in the early 1920s are shown. and its rampantness after the Second World War and in the last years of the Stalinist dictatorship, culminating in campaigns against “cosmopolitans” and “Zionists”, the “Doctors’ Plot”. The author focuses on the carefully researched history of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee established in 1942 and the secret trial against its members. Lustiger analyzes the indictments in detail, exposing the ideological constructs hidden behind their legal language..