Century of Ambivalence, Second Expanded Edition The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present

Name: Century of Ambivalence, Second Expanded Edition The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780253214188

ISBN-10: 0253214181

ISBN-13: 9780253214188

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Enlarged)

Authors: Zvi Gitelman

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A century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about 5 million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the third largest Jewish community in the world. In the intervening century the Jews of that area have been at the centre of some of the most dramatic events of modern history--two world wars, revolutions, pogroms, political liberation, repression, and the collapse of the USSR. They have gone through dizzyingly rapid upward and downward economic and social mobility and experienced great enthusiasms and profound disappointments. In startling photographs and lively…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among other works, Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 and editor of Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR (Indiana University Press).



Introduction



Creativity versus Repression: The Jews in Russia, 1881-1917



Revolution and the Ambiguities of Liberation



Reaching for Utopia: Building Socialism and a New Jewish Culture



The Holocaust



The Black Years and the Gray, 1948-1967



Soviet Jews, 1967-1987: To Reform, Conform, or Leave?



The "Other" Jews of the Former USSR: Georgian, Central Asian, and Mountain Jews



The Post-Soviet Era: Winding Down or Starting Up Again?



The Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Jewry