The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917 : paradox of survival / Nora Levin. Completed in 2 volumes

New York : New York University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 2 volumes (xxxiv, 1013 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 817-983) and index. Contents; Vol. 1. Pre-Bolshevik Jewish parties and Lenin's view of Jewish nationality -- Jews in the cross fire 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, 1929-34 -- 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 illusions, 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.Vol. 2. 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"", 1952-62, 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.Subjects: Jews Soviet Union History. Juifs URSS Histoire. Ethnic relations.Jews. Joden. Jews Soviet Union History. Jews Soviet Union History 1917-Jews Soviet Union History.Soviet Union Ethnic relations. URSS Relations interethniques. Soviet Union. Soviet Union Ethnic relations. Soviet Union History 1917-.