7/12 2/6 I show how the modern usage of Russophobia dates to a bigoted 1982 samizdat essay by Igor Shafarevich, who blamed Jewish intellectuals for the spread of Russophobic stereotypes that treated Russian history as a continuum of despotism from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin & beyond.
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