Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the Cpsu, 1917-1930

by Zvi Y. Gitelman

Book Overview

In order to "Bolshevize" the Jewish population, the Soviets created within the Party a number of special Jewish Sections. Charged with the task of integrating the largely hostile or indifferent Jews into the new state the Sections' programs are, in effect, a case study of the modernization and secularization of an ethnic and religious minority. Zvi Gitelman's analysis of the Sections during the first decade of Soviet rule examines the nature of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691646368
• ISBN13: 9780691646367
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"