The Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Jewish Congress found many Russian textbooks anti-Semitic, according to the Russian Jewish website Jewish.ru. Aleksandr Lokshin, the study's lead author, reported that many history textbooks avoid the subject of the Holocaust despite the fact that the Nazis and their collaborators killed millions of Soviet Jews, the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union reported.
None of the textbooks discusses former pogroms and the repression against Jews during the rule of Josef Stalin. The books also avoid mention of the role of Jews in Russian history.