| Author | Beckerman, Gal.
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| Title | When they come for us, we'll be gone : the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry / Gal Beckerman.
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| Published | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
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| Description | 598 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| ISBN | 9780618573097 |
| ISBN | 0618573097 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 568-579) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Part I: After the thaw, 1963-1970 -- Beneath the earth, 1963-1966 -- "Failure may have become our habit," 1963-1964 -- A circumcision at the Dacha, 1966-1969 -- The overall orchestra, 1965-1969 -- "Escape, daughter of Zion dwelling in Babylon," 1969-1970 -- Part II: Their own détente, 1970-1980 -- Outrageous things, 1970-1972 -- Birth of the refusenik, 1970-1972 -- Linkage, 1972-1975 -- Politiki and kulturniki, 1975-1977 -- The shaming, 1977-1978 -- Trial and exile, 1977-1980 -- Part III: Slouching towards glasnost, 1981-1987 -- Hopelessness, 1981-1984 -- Pawns again, 1985-1986 -- "Mr. Gorbachev, let these people go!" 1986-1987 -- Afterword: Hundreds of thousands, 1988-1991.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Draws on newly released government documents to trace the three-decade effort to protect Jewish Soviet citizens after World War II, providing coverage of the movement's impact on Judaism, the Cold War, and immigration.
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| Subjects | Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Jews -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Refuseniks.
Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
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| Other Titles | When they come for us, we will be gone
Epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry
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| LC Card Number | 2010-5735 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: DS 134.85 B396 2010
CA-1903629: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 76223] |
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