A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

Masterful An indispensable warning for our own time.
-Samuel Moyn

Magisterial Covers this dark history with insight and skill A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.
-The Nation

For much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. A Specter Haunting Europe shows that this paranoid fantasy persists today in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism.

It is both salutary and depressing to be reminded of how enduring the trope of an exploitative global Jewish conspiracy against pure, humble, and selfless nationalists really is A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.
-Mark Mazower, Financial Times

From the start, the fantasy held that an alien element-the Jews-aimed to subvert the cultural values and national identities of Western societies The writers, politicians, and shills whose poisonous ideas he exhumes have many contemporary admirers.
-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs