The Jewish revolution in Belorussia : economy, race, and Bolshevik power

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The Jewish revolution in Belorussia : economy, race, and Bolshevik power

Andrew Sloin

(The modern Jewish experience)

Indiana University Press, c2017

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Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D., University of Chicago, Department of History, 2009)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-317) and index

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Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of Bolshevik history but shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories and workshops, workers' clubs and union meetings, and on the Jewish streets of White Russia. The protagonists here are shoemakers, speculators, glassmakers, peddlers, leatherworkers, needleworkers, soldiers, students, and local party operatives who were swept up, willingly or otherwise, into the Bolshevik project. Sloin stresses the fundamental relationship between economy and identity formation as party officials grappled with the Jewish Question in the wake of the revolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration and Translation Introduction Part I - Revolution 1. Making Jews Bolshevik Part II - Capital and Labor 2. Speculators, Swindlers, and Other Jews: Regulating Trade in Revolutionary White Russia 3. Jewish Proletarians and Proletarian Jews: The Emancipation of Labor in NEP Society Part III - Political Culture and Nationality 4. From Bolshevik Haskole to Cultural Revolution: Abram Beilin and the Jewish Revolution 5. Bundism and the Nationalities Question Part IV - The Politics of Crisis 6. The Politics of Crisis: Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism 7. Antisemitism and the Stalin Revolution Conclusion Appendix: Tables Notes Bibliography Index

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