Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of Bolshevik history but shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories and workshops, workers' clubs and union meetings, and on the Jewish streets of White Russia. The protagonists here are shoemakers, speculators, glassmakers, peddlers, leatherworkers, needleworkers, soldiers, students, and local party operatives who were swept up, willingly or otherwise, into the Bolshevik project. Sloin stresses the fundamental relationship between economy and identity formation as party officials grappled with the Jewish Question in the wake of the revolution.
By:
Andrew Sloin
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780253024510
ISBN 10: 025302451X
Series: The Modern Jewish Experience
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 13 February 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration and Translation Introduction Part I - Revolution 1. Making Jews Bolshevik Part II – Capital and Labor 2. Speculators, Swindlers, and Other Jews: Regulating Trade in Revolutionary White Russia 3. Jewish Proletarians and Proletarian Jews: The Emancipation of Labor in NEP Society Part III – Political Culture and Nationality 4. From Bolshevik Haskole to Cultural Revolution: Abram Beilin and the Jewish Revolution 5. Bundism and the Nationalities Question Part IV – The Politics of Crisis 6. The Politics of Crisis: Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism 7. Antisemitism and the Stalin Revolution Conclusion Appendix: Tables Notes Bibliography Index
Andrew Sloin is Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College.
Reviews for The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power
Much has been written about the promises and pitfalls of Soviet nationality policies and the ways in which the Soviet state managed its multi-ethnic empire. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped archival materials from Belorussian archives, Sloin's excellent study nonetheless fills a major lacuna. It will stand alongside some of the best scholarship in Soviet Jewish history that has been published in recent years. * Slavonic and East European Review * In all, Sloin's useful, well-written, and well-researched book significantly advances our understanding of Jewish life in 1920s Soviet Belorussia. * Russian Review *
