The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917 : paradox of survival

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The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917 : paradox of survival

Nora Levin

I.B. Tauris, 1990, c1988

  • v. 1
  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2
  • v. 2 : pbk

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Originally published: New York : New York University Press, 1988

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781850432494

Description

This history of the lives of Jews in the Soviet Union describes how the condition of Jews was affected by the fall of the Tsarist regime and their treatment at the hands of subsequent Communist regimes. It describes pogroms, resettlements, the impact of World War II, and the refusnik movement.

Table of Contents

Volume II 24. Intensified Persecution: Anti-Semitism Becomes Official Policy, 1952-54 25. The Heirs of Stalin, 1953-56: Restricted Thaw 26. "We Have No Intention of Reviving a Dead Culture": Jewish Policy under Khrushchev in the 1950s 27. The Literary "Thaw," 1956-62, and the First Jewish National Stirrings, 1958-63 28. The Sixties: Renewed Attacks on Jews and Judaism and a Few Concessions 29. The West, Dissidents, and the "Jews of Silence" Protest Soviet Repression, 196o-68 30. The Jewish National Movement: Trials, Tests, and Affirmations, 1968-71 31. The Jewish Emigration Movement and Western Support, 1971-76 32. Jewish Emigration, 1976-84: Trials, Achievements, Doubts, and Dilemmas 33. Permitted Margins of jewish Life, 1970-85 34. A People in Limbo: The Continuing Soviet Jewish Predicament.
Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781850432500

Description

This history of the lives of Jews in the Soviet Union describes how the condition of Jews was affected by the fall of the Tsarist regime and their treatment at the hands of subsequent Communist regimes. It describes pogroms, resettlements, the impact of World War II, and the refusnik movement.

Table of Contents

  • Volume I Pre-Bolshevik Jewish Parties and Lenin's View of Jewish Nationality
  • Jews in the Crossfire of War and the Bolshevik Struggle for Power, 1914-21
  • The Collapse of Jewish Political Parties and the Rise of the Evsektsiya
  • The Campaign against Traditional Jewish Life, 1917-29
  • The Campaign against Zionism and Hebrew Culture
  • Uprooting and Resettlement on the Land, 1922-28
  • Jews under the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-27
  • Yiddish Culture in the Soviet Mold: Soviets, Courts, Schools, and Scholarship
  • Yiddish Literature and Theater, 1917-30
  • Proletarianization: Collectivization of Agriculture and the End of the Jewish Colonies
  • Proletarianization: The First Five Year Plan and Industrialization, 1928-39
  • Stalin's Iron Age: New Controls, Repression, and Anti-Semitism, 1929-39
  • Birobidzhan, -1928-40
  • The Great Purges, 1936-38, and the Hitler-Stalin Pact, 1939-41
  • Jews in the Soviet-Annexed Territories, September 1939-June 1941
  • Jews as Pawns in Polish-Soviet Relations, 1941-46
  • The Jewish Antifascist Committee and Other Musions, 1942-43
  • Jews and the War
  • Jewish War Losses, Traumas, and Ominous Signs, 1944-46
  • Collapse of JAC Projects and Signs of the Cold War, 1944-47
  • Soviet Policy toward the Jewish State and Hebrew Stirrings, 1946-49
  • Birobidzhan Diversion and Onset of the Black Years, 1946-49
  • Power Struggles, the Cold War, Trials, and Purges, 1949-52. Volume 11 Intensified Persecution - Anti-Semitism Becomes Official Policy, 1952-54
  • The Heirs of Stalin, 1953-56 - Restricted Thaw
  • "We Have No Intention of Reviving a Dead Culture" - Jewish Policy under Khrushchev in the 1950s. The Literary "Thaw," - 1956-62, and the First Jewish National Stirrings, 1958-63
  • The Sixties - Renewed Attacks on Jews and Judaism and a Few Concessions
  • The West, Dissidents, and the "Jews of Silence" Protest Soviet Repression, 1960-68
  • The Jewish National Movement - Trials, Tests, and Affirmations, 1968-71
  • The Jewish Emigration Movement and Western support, 1971-76
  • Jewish Emigration, 1976-84 - Trials, Achievements, Doubts, and Dilemmas
  • Permitted Margins of Jewish Life, 1970-85
  • A People in Limbo - The Continuing Soviet Jewish Predicament.
Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9781850432555

Description

This history of the lives of Jews in the Soviet Union describes how the condition of Jews was affected by the fall of the Tsarist regime and their treatment at the hands of subsequent Communist regimes. It describes pogroms, resettlements, the impact of World War II, and the refusnik movement.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9781850432562

Description

This history of the lives of Jews in the Soviet Union describes how the condition of Jews was affected by the fall of the Tsarist regime and their treatment at the hands of subsequent Communist regimes. It describes pogroms, resettlements, the impact of World War II, and the refusnik movement.

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