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Book SynopsisIn 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
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*List of Tables, pg. xiii*Illustrations, pg. xiv*I. The Politics of the Jewish Question in Tsarist 17 Russia, pg. 1*II. 1917: Parties, Politics, and the Planning of 69 Freedom, pg. 67*III. The Establishment of the Jewish Commissariats 105 and Jewish Sections, pg. 103*IV. Disappearing Alternatives: The End of the 151 Jewish Socialist Parties, pg. 149*V. "Revolution on the Jewish Street", pg. 231*VI. The Constructive Years, pg. 319*VII. The Evsektsiia and the Modernization of Soviet 379 Jewry, pg. 377*VIII. Deviations, Dissension, Dissolution, pg. 441*IX. Conclusion, pg. 483*Epilogue: The Tragedy of the Evsektsiia Activists, pg. 511*Bibliography, pg. 525*Index, pg. 559
