Mainstream historians and institutions, such as the Holocaust Encyclopedia, identify the "Judeo-Bolshevism" narrative as a canard popularized by the Nazi Party and anti-communist "White" forces during the Russian Civil War. While some early Bolshevik leaders were of Jewish descent, they were generally atheists and internationalists who rejected their religious and ethnic heritage in favor of Marxist ideology.
is a 2013 book primarily authored and promoted by David Duke , a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and a well-known white nationalist. The work is widely characterized by human rights organizations and historians as a piece of antisemitic propaganda that revitalizes the “Judeo-Bolshevism” conspiracy theory. Core Claims and Content Secret Behind Communism The Ethnic Origins of t...
Duke relies heavily on Britton’s earlier 1952 pamphlet, Behind Communism , which disseminated the myth that communism was a Jewish conspiracy. The work is widely characterized by human rights