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Rootless cosmopolitan
"Rootless cosmopolitan" (Russian: безродный космополит bězródnïj kósmopólït) was a pejorative epithet that was mostly applied to creatives, intellectuals, and prominent political figures, particularly Jewish, during the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
In the Communist Party's discourse, rootless cosmopolitans were defined as unpatriotic Soviet citizens who disseminated foreign influence and favoured the socio-political atmosphere or aesthetics of Western Europe or the United States.
It became especially prevalent during the country's anti-cosmopolitan campaign, which began in 1946 and continued until Stalin's death in 1953, as part of an assault on "bourgeois Western influences" that widely targeted writers and other intellectuals, culminating in the "exposure" of the non-existent "doctors' plot" against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The term is considered to be an antisemitic trope.
The expression "rootless cosmopolitan" was coined in the 19th century by Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky to describe writers who lacked Russian national character.
The term is associated with the anti-cosmopolitan campaigns of the Soviet Union following World War II.
The campaign began when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Andrei Zhdanov passed a resolution targeting two state newspapers, Zvezda and Leningrad, for publishing material of satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poet Anna Akhmatova. Both were denounced and expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. This marked the beginning of the Zhdanov Doctrine in the Soviet Union.
According to the doctrine, Soviet artists and writers were expected to support socialism and reject Western, particularly bourgeois or individualist, influences. All forms of creative expression had to follow the principles of socialist realism, glorifying the state, the working class, and communist values. The policy led to widespread censorship, suppression of artistic freedom, and condemnation of prominent figures in the arts and academia.
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Rootless cosmopolitan
"Rootless cosmopolitan" (Russian: безродный космополит bězródnïj kósmopólït) was a pejorative epithet that was mostly applied to creatives, intellectuals, and prominent political figures, particularly Jewish, during the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
In the Communist Party's discourse, rootless cosmopolitans were defined as unpatriotic Soviet citizens who disseminated foreign influence and favoured the socio-political atmosphere or aesthetics of Western Europe or the United States.
It became especially prevalent during the country's anti-cosmopolitan campaign, which began in 1946 and continued until Stalin's death in 1953, as part of an assault on "bourgeois Western influences" that widely targeted writers and other intellectuals, culminating in the "exposure" of the non-existent "doctors' plot" against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The term is considered to be an antisemitic trope.
The expression "rootless cosmopolitan" was coined in the 19th century by Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky to describe writers who lacked Russian national character.
The term is associated with the anti-cosmopolitan campaigns of the Soviet Union following World War II.
The campaign began when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Andrei Zhdanov passed a resolution targeting two state newspapers, Zvezda and Leningrad, for publishing material of satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poet Anna Akhmatova. Both were denounced and expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. This marked the beginning of the Zhdanov Doctrine in the Soviet Union.
According to the doctrine, Soviet artists and writers were expected to support socialism and reject Western, particularly bourgeois or individualist, influences. All forms of creative expression had to follow the principles of socialist realism, glorifying the state, the working class, and communist values. The policy led to widespread censorship, suppression of artistic freedom, and condemnation of prominent figures in the arts and academia.