Editing Anti-Russian sentiment (section)

=== Cold War ===
{{See also|Soviet Union–United States relations}}
Russophobic stereotypes of an illiberal tradition were also favored by Cold War historiographers, even as scholars of early Russia debunked such essentialist notions.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2001|title=Russophobia and the American Politics of Russian History|journal=Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History|language=en|volume=2|issue=3|pages=465–467|doi=10.1353/kri.2008.0106|issn=1538-5000|last1=David-Fox|first1=Michael|last2=Holquist|first2=Peter.|last3=Poe|first3=Marshall.}}</ref>

Widely criticized for being antisemitic and extremist nationalistic, [[Igor Shafarevich|Igor Shafarevich's]] 1981 work ''Russophobia''<ref>{{cite book|author=Shafarevich, Igor|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA335121.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207001755/http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA335121|url-status=live|archive-date=7 February 2016|title=Russophobia|date=1990|publisher=Joint Publications Research Service}}</ref> blamed "Jews seeking world rule" for alleged "vast conspiracy against Russia and all mankind" and seeking destruction of Russia through adoption of a Western-style democracy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dunlop |first1=John |title=The 'sad case' of Igor Shafarevich |journal=East European Jewish Affairs |date=1994 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=19–30|doi=10.1080/13501679408577760 }}</ref>