Farming the red land : Jewish agricultural colonization and local Soviet power, 1924-1941 / Jonathan L. Dekel-Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Jews--Colonization--Ukraine.

Jews.

Agricultural colonies--Ukraine.

Agricultural colonies.

Jewish farmers--Soviet Union--Economic conditions.

Jewish farmers.

Crimea (Ukraine)--Colonization.

Crimea (Ukraine).

Ukraine, Southern--Colonization.

Ukraine, Southern.

Soviet Union--Colonies--Social conditions.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource ) illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable relations that developed among the American-Jewish sponsors of the ambitious project, the Soviet authorities, and the colonists themselves.Drawing on extensive and largely untouched archives and a wealth of previously unpublished oral histories, the book revises what has been understood about these agricultural settlements. Dekel-Chen offers new conclusions about integration and separation among Soviet Jews, the contours of international relations, and the balance of political forces within the Jewish world during this volatile period.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations, Transliterated Terms, and Translation Equivalents

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1 From Shtetl to Colony, 1917-1924

Chapter 2 Building a Colonization Movement: Theory to Practice

Chapter 3 Colonization and Diaspora Politics

Chapter 4 Soviet Power and Life in the Colonies, 1925-1929

Chapter 5 Collectivization and Its Limits, 1929-1934

Chapter 6 Soviet-Jewish Farmers, 1935-1941

Conclusion

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-351) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786611722982

9781281722980

1281722987

9780300133929

0300133928

OCLC:

123132119