ANTI-SEMITIC ATTITUDES OF THE MASS PUBLIC: ESTIMATES AND EXPLANATIONS BASED ON A SURVEY OF THE MOSCOW OBLAST |
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| Authors: | GIBSON JAMES L; DUCH RAYMOND M |
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| Institution: | JAMES L. GIBSON is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. RAYMOND M. DUCH is associate professor of political science at the University of Houston. We are grateful to several agencies for support for this research, including the National Science Foundation (SES-9003868), the College of Social Sciences and the Limited-Grant-in-Aid program at the University of Houston, the Dresser Foundation, the American Jewish Committee, and the USSR Academy of Sciences. We are indebted to the following people for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper Gennady Denisovsky, Leonid Khotin, Polina Kozyreva, Misha Matskovsky, and David Singer. We are completely responsible for all interpretations and conclusions in this article; none of these agencies necessarily endorses our findings. |
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| Abstract: | In this article we examine anti-Semitism as expressed by a sampleof residents of the Moscow Oblast (Soviet Union). Based on asurvey conducted in 1920, we begin by describing anti-Jewishprejudice and support for official discrimination against Jews.We discover a surprisingly low level of expressed anti-Semitismamong these Soviet respondents and virtually no support forstate policies that discriminate against Jews. At the same time,many of the conventional hypotheses predicting anti-Semitismare supported in the Soviet case. Anti-Semitism is concentratedamong those with lower levels of education, those whose personalfinancial condition is deteriorating, and those who oppose furtherdemocratization of the Soviet Union. We do not take these findingsas evidence that anti-Semitism is a trivial problem in the SovietUnion but, rather, suggest that efforts to combat anti-Jewishmovements would likely receive considerable support from ordinarySoviet people. |
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