The Jewish Communist Workers' Party, the Poale Zion, provides a
unique perspective on the question of how Marxism and the early
Soviet Union dealt with issues of nationalism. According to
Bolshevik ideology, when anti-Semitism disappeared in the new
Socialist society, Jews would assimilate. In reality, such
assimilation would be a very long, slow process. The Poale Zion
supported the socialist struggle against oppression and
exploitation of classes and nations, but it called for the
formation of an international organization that would recognize the
right of Jews to emigrate freely to Palestine and work for the
creation of a democratic republic where people could retain their
national identities and have both autonomy and representation in
the union. Gurevitz analyzes the Soviet Poale Zion as
representative of Jewish communism as nationalism in its purest
form, and he traces the complex contradictions between Jewish
nationalism and the Communist ideal of assimilation in the early
years of the Soviet Union.
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