• Frontmatter,
• Preface,
• Contents,
• List of Tables,
• Illustrations,
• I. The Politics of the Jewish Question in Tsarist 17 Russia,
• II. 1917: Parties, Politics, and the Planning of 69 Freedom,
• III. The Establishment of the Jewish Commissariats 105 and Jewish Sections,
• IV. Disappearing Alternatives: The End of the 151 Jewish Socialist Parties,
• V. "Revolution on the Jewish Street",
• VI. The Constructive Years,
• VII. The Evsektsiia and the Modernization of Soviet 379 Jewry,
• VIII. Deviations, Dissension, Dissolution,
• IX. Conclusion,
• Epilogue: The Tragedy of the Evsektsiia Activists,
• Bibliography,
• Index,

In 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 Gitelman's analysis of the Sections during the first decade of Soviet rule examines the nature of the challenge that modernization posed, the crises it created, and the responses it evoked.
Originally published in 1972.
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