The Doctors' Plot may have been the first element of this plan.

Yet this time the diagnosis may have been falsified - a kind of doctors' plot touted as unanimous opinion.

Goglidze was in charge of the investigation of the Doctors' Plot.

For example, at the time of the Doctors' plot it published a number of anti-semitic articles and cartoons.

Stalin's suspicion of doctors in the wake of the Doctors' Plot was well known.

During the Doctors' Plot affair, his foster parents were arrested and his father died in prison.

In 1953 Shtemenko was listed as an intended victim of the Doctors' Plot.

The sullen Stalinists speak of the "Jewish doctors' plot" and the purge that followed.

This culminated in the so-called Doctors' Plot.

The Stalinist antisemitic campaign ultimately culminated in the Doctors' plot in 1953.

In 1950, in association with the Doctors' plot, the foreign intelligence agency began dismissing persons of Jewish nationality.

Doctors' plot, engineered on Stalin's orders.

And so, if the untutored cannot really distinguish between the 1953 "doctors' plot" in Russia and the 1956 Hungarian revolution, that hardly matters.

He was one of the doctors named in the fabricated Joseph Stalin's Doctors' Plot in 1953.

Also in the Doctors' Plot issued between 1952-1953 number of Jewish doctors were arrested and accused of an attempt to murder leading party leaders.

Medvedev further hypothesizes that Stalin intended to use the closing of the Doctors' Plot to remove from power those who had been involved in it.

On December 15, 1952 Vlasik was removed from his position and soon arrested on false charges in connection with the Doctors' plot.

Stalin's paranoia resulted in a campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans" which culminated in the conspiracy theory of the alleged Doctors' plot.

The Doctors' plot false accusation in the USSR.

Without Israel's fierce hostility to the false allegations of a Doctors' Plot, the Soviet Union most likely would not have ended relations.

Stalin's doctors' plot encouraged local citizens to terrorize Jews, a pogrom in 1953 that mercifully was cut short by Stalin's death.

Historian Zhores Medvedev argues that Stalin was getting ready to end the Doctors' Plot case right before his death.

Stalin continued his oppression of Jews with the Doctors' Plot, which began to gain publicity just as his health began to deteriorate.

On the eve of his 90th birthday, his memoirs have been published, a first-hand account of the convulsive moment of anti-Semitism called "the doctors' plot."

This year, that difficult confrontation has slowly begun, spurred by a reference to the doctors' plot in Mikhail S. Gorbachev's speech on Soviet history last fall.