Vadim Skurativsky. The Authorship Problem of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”

The book discusses the authorship of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, an anonymous text whose appearance in the early twentieth century sparked a widespread and extremely reactionary sentiment, which sometimes comes out even nowadays.

It was the anonymity of “The Protocols” that gave almost planetary resonance to the myth of the “Jewish worldwide conspiracy” against Christians and all of humanity. Having conducted a historiosophic and textual analysis of “The Protocols”, the Ukrainian scholar concludes that they are a product of a literary mystification by the Russian journalist and novelist Matvei Golovinski (1865–1920).
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