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Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930
By (Author) Zvi Gitelman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
324.247075
Paperback
590
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
794g
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