The murder of Mikhoels and the destruction of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Golda Meir's Moscow term and the vacillations of Ilya Ehrenburg, who was favored by the Kremlin, the fight against rootless cosmopolitans and the "Doctors' Plot", the Judeophobic "economic" trials of the early 1960s and the surge of national self-awareness after the Six-Day War, anti-Semitic narratives in Soviet propaganda and the activities of the servile Anti-Zionist Committee - all of this became the subject of the book's consideration.

The situation in modern Russia, where a surge of anti-Israeli rhetoric has recently been observed, is also not overlooked. The study is based on numerous archival documents, surveys and interviews that are little known to a wide range of readers.