The novel “Aphid” by Ivan Mikhailovich Shevtsov, published in this book, constituted an era in the struggle of the Russian people with the cosmopolitans and Zionists of the Soviet era. The writer showed the ideological confrontation in the camp of the artistic intelligentsia - patriots and cosmopolitans. He was the first to express out loud what many Russian intellectuals were whispering about on the sidelines, not daring to openly discuss what was long overdue and painful, for fear of being labeled an “anti-Semite.” The writer showed the danger of mental vacillation, the harm of politically programmed differences of opinion, the ultimate goal of which was the destruction of the Soviet Union, and then Russia. Shevtsov prophetically warned the Russians about the machinations of a small but influential layer of Jewish intelligentsia, which, through the media, imposes alien aesthetic standards on society. It has a stranglehold on the living principles of national life, concentrating in its hands the threads of controlling public opinion. The designation of this phenomenon, included in the title of the novel, is also symbolic. The title emphasizes the spirit of decay, moral leprosy, which the Zionists preach, skillfully disguised. Long before the so-called perestroika, Shevtsov perspicaciously unraveled the strategy and tactics of hostile actions of “agents of influence” in our country. In addition to the novel “Aphid,” the book publishes the writer’s memoirs about figures of Russian culture.