Revolution, Repression and Revival enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States. The book explains the contradictions, ambiguities and anomalies of the Russian Jewish story and helps us understand one of the most complex and unsettled chapters in modern Jewish history.

Edited by Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i - Contributions by Samuel Barnai; Michael Beizer; Oleg Budnitskii; Jonathan Dekel-Chen; Sergio DellaPergola; Kiril Feferman; Theodore Friedgut; Ziva Galili; Marshall Goldman; Lev Gudkov; Vladimir Khanin; Gennadii Kos

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Jews and the Soviet Regime: Encounters and Interactions Chapter 4 The "Jewish Battalions" in the Red Army Chapter 5 Zionism in the Early Soviet State: Between Legality and Persecution Chapter 6 Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the Interwar Soviet Union: The Black Sea Littoral Chapter 7 The Struggle for Survival in the Belorussian Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930s Chapter 8 The Jews of a Soviet Metropolis in the Interwar Period: The Case of Leningrad Chapter 9 Social Trends among Jews in the Post-Stalin Years Part 10 Antisemitism in War and Peace Chapter 11 Jewish Refugees and Evacuees under Soviet Rule and German Occupation: The North Caucasus Chapter 12 The Genesis of Establishment Anti-Semitism in the USSR: The Black Years, 1948-1953 Chapter 13 Attitudes towards Jews in Post-Soviet Russia and the Problem of Anti-Semitism Part 14 Reconstructing Jewish Communities in the USSR and its Successor States Chapter 15 The Jewish National Movement and the Struggle for Community in the late Soviet Period Chapter 16 The Problematics of Jewish Community Development in Contemporary Russia Chapter 17 Putin & the Jewish Oligarchs: Prejudice or Politics? Chapter 18 Major Trends in Post-Soviet Jewish Demography, 1989-2004 Chapter 19 The Demography of Post-Soviet Jewry in its Global and Local Contexts Part 20 The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora: Reception and Adaptation Chapter 21 The "Russian" Aliya in Israel: Community and Identity in the Second Decade Chapter 22 Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Population and Labor Force 23 Looking into the Future