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Klappentext Provides the English reader with a comprehensive study! based on first-hand documentary material! of Soviet policy towards the Jews of the USSR. Zusammenfassung Provides the English reader with a comprehensive study, based on first-hand documentary material, of Soviet policy towards the Jews of the USSR from the Stalinist era, through to the interregnum (1953–7), the Khrushchev period and the 'collective leadership' of Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny (1964–7). Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Government ideology and the Jews: 1. The Jewish national question in the Soviet Union; 2. Official Soviet statements on the Jewish question; Part II. Jews as victims of Soviet policy: 3. Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union; 4. The campaigns against 'Jewish nationalism' and `cosmopolitanism'; 5. Jews on trial in the Soviet Union; Part III. The Zionist issue: 6. The Soviet regime and Zionism; Part IV. Jews and the Jewish people in Soviet society: 7. Jewish culture in the Soviet Union; 8. The Jewish religion in the Soviet Union; 9. Jews in Soviet government; 10. The Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan; Part V. The Jewish experience as mirrored in Soviet publications: 11. Jews in Soviet literature; 12. The Holocaust and Jewish resistance as reflected in Soviet academic literature and the press; Part IV. A separate development: 13. The Oriental Jews of the Soviet Union.
