A century of ambivalence : the Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the present /

Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the world's third largest Jewish community. In the intervening century the Jews of that a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gitelman, Zvi Y. (Author)
Corporate Author: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001.
Edition:2nd expanded ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
1800-1899
Jews > Russia > History > 19th century.
Jews > Soviet Union > History.
Jews > Russia (Federation) > History.
Jews > Russia > Pictorial works.
Jews > Soviet Union > Pictorial works.
Juifs > Russie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Juifs > URSS > Histoire.
Juifs > Russie > Histoire.
Juifs > Russie > Ouvrages illustrés.
Juifs > URSS > Ouvrages illustrés.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Juden
Russia > Ethnic relations.
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Russia (Federation) > Ethnic relations.
Russia > Pictorial works.
Soviet Union > Pictorial works.
Russia.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union.
Russland
Sowjetunion
Juden.
History.
Pictorial works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Creativity versus Repression: The Jews in Russia, 1881-1917
  • 2. Revolution and the Ambiguities of Liberation
  • 3. Reaching for Utopia: Building Socialism and a New Jewish Culture
  • 4. The Holocaust
  • 5. The Black Years and the Gray, 1948-1967
  • 6. Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: To Reform, Conform, or Leave?
  • 7. The "Other" Jews of the Former USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews
  • 8. The Post-Soviet Era: Winding Down or Starting Up Again?
  • 9. The Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Jewry.

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