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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOn the whole, The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia, is an outstanding piece of sophisticated scholarship. Cogently argued and analytically astute, the book is a major contribution to our knowledge of the "Jewish Question" in the early years of the Soviet Union.
* Journal of Modern History *
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 *
Sloin's book is a precious addition to our developing understanding of the particular experience of Jews in the BSSR.
* English Historical Review *
Sloin's book contributes to our understanding of the role Jewish Communists played within the Belarusian Communist Party in this period, as well as showing how communist ideology and policy from Moscow (not always the same thing) influenced Jewish identity in Belarus.
* Kritika *
Sloin's book lays exceptionally fruitful ground for further rethinking of the conventional paradigms of Soviet Jewishness and the languages of early Soviet social identities in general.
* Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
