A Specter Haunting Europe | Paul Hanebrink

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The first comprehensive account of the evolution and exploitation of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth, from its origins to the present day.For much of the twentieth century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. This myth-that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe-was a paranoid fantasy, and yet fears of a Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy took hold during the Russian Revolution and spread across Europe. During World War II, these fears sparked genocide.Paul Hanebrink's history begins with the counterrevolutionary movements that roiled Europe at the…