The Jewish Minority In The Soviet Union
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
At the intersection of ideology, ethnicity, and state power, The Jewish Minority in the Soviet Union presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the twentieth century's most complex minority experiences. Thomas E. Sawyer chronicles the political, cultural, and social pressures faced by Soviet Jews under a regime that simultaneously denied their distinctiveness and surveilled their every expression of it, tracing the arc of Jewish life from the early Bolshevik promises of emancipation to the repressive realities of institutionalised antisemitism and state-enforced assimilation. Sawyer argues with scholarly precision that the Jewish experience in the USSR cannot be understood in isolation from the broader mechanics of Soviet nationality policy, and his analytical framework illuminates how a minority group navigates survival within an authoritarian state. The work sits firmly within the tradition of Cold War-era social history, bringing empirical rigour to questions of identity, belonging, and resistance that resonate far beyond the Soviet context. For anyone seeking to understand how culture and faith endure under systematic suppression, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to belong to a people the state refuses to acknowledge?
Author: Thomas E. Sawyer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Westview Press
Genre: Society & culture
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
At the intersection of ideology, ethnicity, and state power, The Jewish Minority in the Soviet Union presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the twentieth century's most complex minority experiences. Thomas E. Sawyer chronicles the political, cultural, and social pressures faced by Soviet Jews under a regime that simultaneously denied their distinctiveness and surveilled their every expression of it, tracing the arc of Jewish life from the early Bolshevik promises of emancipation to the repressive realities of institutionalised antisemitism and state-enforced assimilation. Sawyer argues with scholarly precision that the Jewish experience in the USSR cannot be understood in isolation from the broader mechanics of Soviet nationality policy, and his analytical framework illuminates how a minority group navigates survival within an authoritarian state. The work sits firmly within the tradition of Cold War-era social history, bringing empirical rigour to questions of identity, belonging, and resistance that resonate far beyond the Soviet context. For anyone seeking to understand how culture and faith endure under systematic suppression, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to belong to a people the state refuses to acknowledge?