Revolution, Repression and Revival The Experience of Jews in the Former Soviet Union

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It seems that the fall of the Berlin wall has let Zionist basically rewrite the history of the Soviet Union for "Western" consumption.  Books like the "Black Book of Communism" which were written as documents were unearthed in the catacombs of the Russian Archives, or "Two Hundred Years Together" by Solzhenitsyn, are too close for comfort for many Russian Jews and Western Jews - because they blow the lid off of a lot of unpleasant truths that some would rather be left unsaid. Also the "drama" of the Zionist movement is given wistful wings in these accounts.  -- The CSR
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Revolution, Repression and Revival The Experience of Jews in the Former Soviet Union enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States. The book explains the contradictions, ambiguities and anomalies of the Russian Jewish story and helps us understand one of the most complex and unsettled chapters in modern Jewish history.

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Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience
By Zvi Gitelman, Yaacov Ro'i
Contributor Yaacov Ro'i
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
ISBN 0742558177, 9780742558175
406 pages


Chapter 2
Zionism in the Early Soviet State: Between Legality and Persecution  (A good Chapter to look at!)

http://books.google.com/books?id=Cd3RM6 ... 0#PPA37,M1


Details on Zvi - He smells like a Collegiate Zionist that won't mention the dirty deeds of Jews in the Cheka or the Jewish takeover of Hungary.

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Zvi Y. Gitelman
Professor
Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies
Research Scientist, Center for Russian and East European Studies
Ph.D., Columbia

7759 Haven Hall, (734) 763-4393
mailto:zvigitel@umich.edu">zvigitel@umich.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

    * Comparative Government and Politics
    * Race, Ethnicity, and Politics


Professor Gitelman studies ethnicity and politics, especially in former Communist countries and in Israel. He is writing a book on ethnic identities among Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the United States. Gitelman has collected oral histories of Soviet Jewish veterans of World War Two, and has researched Soviet archives on the Holocaust in the USSR. The project aims to fill in 'blank spots' in Soviet history and to understand ethnic relations and ethnic motivations in the Soviet armed forces during the war. Among his other current projects are analyses of ethnicity in the Soviet secret police and the role of Jews in East European Communist movements. His forthcoming edited volumes are Revolution, Repression and Revival: the Soviet Jewish Experience (Rowman and Littlefield) and Judaism and Jewishness: The Evolution of Secular and Religious Jewish Identities (Rutgers University Press).

Selected Publications

    * A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (Indiana University Press, second ed. 2001).
    * Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the Soviet Union (Indiana University Press, 1997).
    * The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003).
    * Jewish Life After the USSR (Indiana University Press, 2003).
    * New Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe (Central European University Press, 2003).
    * (With Valeriy Chervyakov and Vladimir Shapiro), "The Ethnicity of Russian and Ukrainian Jews," (East European Jewish Affairs, 31, 2, Fall 2001) 1-17.
    * "Internationalism, Patriotism and Disillusion: Soviet Jewish Veterans Remember World War Two," in John Roth and Elizabeh Maxwell, eds., Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide (Palgrave, 2001) 296-308.
    * "The 'Russian Revolution' in Israeli Politics," in Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, eds., The Elections in Israel 1999 (State University of New York Press, 2002), 141-164.
    * "Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations," in Joshua Zimmerman, ed., Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Rutgers Universit y Press, 2002).


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