Rootless cosmopolitan
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Rootless cosmopolitan (безродный космополит, bezrodnyi kosmopolit) was a Soviet pejorative euphemism widely used during Soviet anti-Semitic campaign of 1948–1953, which culminated in the "exposure" of the non-existent Doctors' plot. The term "rootless cosmopolitan" referred mostly to Jewish intellectuals, as an accusation in their lack of patriotism, i.e., lack of full allegiance to the Soviet Union. The campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans" began in 1946, when Joseph Stalin in his speech in Moscow attacked writers who were ethnic Jews. Historically, the expression was first coined in 19th century by Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky to describe writers who lacked Russian national character.
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See also
- Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public
- Global citizenship
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Slánský trial
- Soviet anti-Zionism
- Yevsektsiya
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