A CENTURY OF AMBIVALENCE The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the present by Gitelman, Zvi
A CENTURY OF AMBIVALENCE The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the present by Gitelman, Zvi
Hardcover
ISBN 9780670823529 / 067082352X
Publisher: Viking , 1988
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Gift Inscription neatly inscribed on first page.The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
An illustrated survey of the lives and history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era.
A century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about 5 million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the third largest Jewish community in the world. In the intervening century the Jews of that area have been at the centre of some of the most dramatic events of modern history - two world wars, revolutions, pogroms, political liberation, repression, and the collapse of the USSR. They have gone through dizzyingly rapid upward and downward economic and social mobility and experienced great enthusiasms and profound disappointments. In startling photographs and lively narrative, "A Century of Ambivalence" traces the historical experience of Jews in Russia from a period of creativity and repression in the second half of the 19th century through the paradoxes posed by the post-Soviet era.
