Jewish nationality and Soviet politics : the Jewish sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 / Zvi Y. Gitelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gitelman, Zvi Y., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Soviet Union--History.

Jews.

Jewish communists--Soviet Union.

Jewish communists.

Communism--Soviet Union.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (589 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1972.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the challenge that modernization posed, the crises it created, and the responses it evoked.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Tables

Illustrations

I. The Politics of the Jewish Question in Tsarist 17 Russia

II. 1917: Parties, Politics, and the Planning of 69 Freedom

III. The Establishment of the Jewish Commissariats 105 and Jewish Sections

IV. Disappearing Alternatives: The End of the 151 Jewish Socialist Parties

V. "Revolution on the Jewish Street"

VI. The Constructive Years

VII. The Evsektsiia and the Modernization of Soviet 379 Jewry

VIII. Deviations, Dissension, Dissolution

IX. Conclusion

Epilogue: The Tragedy of the Evsektsiia Activists

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64636-8

1-4008-6913-7

OCLC:

933516211