From 1947 to 1949, Eikhenbaum was victimized by the campaign against "rootless cosmopolitanism," along with Viktor Zhirmunsky, Grigorii Gukovskii, and Mark Azadovsky, but was able to continue his science.
From 1947 to 1949, Eikhenbaum endured persecution as part of a campaign against "outsider intellectuals," along with Viktor Zhirmunsky, Grigorii Gukovskii, and Mark Azadovsky, but he managed to keep up his scholarly pursuits.