{"product_id":"the-soviet-government-and-the-jews-1948-1967-a-documented-study-paperback-9780521090469","title":"The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948–1967; A Documented Study (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521090469","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Soviet Government and the Jews 1948–1967\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Documented Study\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProvides the English reader with a comprehensive study, based on first-hand documentary material, of Soviet policy towards the Jews of the USSR.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Pinkus (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521090469, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 November 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e632 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.92 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eProvides 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). In 1948 the State of Israel was established with the support of the Soviet bloc. But the period 1948–53 (the so-called 'black years'), also witnessed the murder of the actor Shlomo Mikhoels, the closing of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, the liquidation of all Jewish cultural institutions, and the launching of the anti-cosmopolitan campaign and the 'Doctors' Plot'. After Stalin there were improvements in the policy towards the non-Russian nationalities, and even certain gestures of goodwill towards the Jewish population; but these proved to be more symbolic than substantive, and the Jews as individuals and as a national minority came to feel increasingly and inescapably trapped. Government restrictions, crude attacks on Judaism, Zionism, and on the State of Israel became regular features of the post-Stalin era.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Government ideology and the Jews: 1. The Jewish national question in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e 2. Official Soviet statements on the Jewish question\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Jews as victims of Soviet policy: 3. Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e 4. The campaigns against 'Jewish nationalism' and `cosmopolitanism'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Jews on trial in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Zionist issue: 6. The Soviet regime and Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Jews and the Jewish people in Soviet society: 7. Jewish culture in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Jewish religion in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e 9. Jews in Soviet government\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Jewish experience as mirrored in Soviet publications: 11. Jews in Soviet literature\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Holocaust and Jewish resistance as reflected in Soviet academic literature and the press\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. A separate development: 13. The Oriental Jews of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913111953688,"sku":"9780521090469","price":44.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521090469i.jpg?v=1694969507","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-soviet-government-and-the-jews-1948-1967-a-documented-study-paperback-9780521090469","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}