Jewish Bolshevism
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Jewish Bolshevism (also Judeo-Bolshevism or Judeo-Communism, a related term in Polish language is Żydokomuna) is an antisemitic political epithet and a label for a conspiracy theory which blames Jews for Bolshevism.
It became popular among anti-communist and antisemitic sources after the Russian October Revolution (1917) and spread worldwide in the 1920s with the publication and circulation of the plagiarism and hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It made an issue out of the ethnic Jewish background of some Bolsheviks (most notably Leon Trotsky) immediately after the revolution.
The term "Judeo-Bolshevism" was subsequently adopted and used in Nazi Germany to refer to Jews and communists together, implying that the communist movement served Jewish interests and/or that all Jews were communists.
See also
- Żydokomuna
- Doctors' Plot
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)
- Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion)
- Jewish left
- History of the Jews in Russia and Soviet Union
- History of antisemitism
- Komzet
- Poale Zion
- Yevsektsiya
- Antisemitic canard