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This is the moving story of a number of individuals who made the
difficult and sometimes hazardous decision to leave their home,
family, and friends and start new lives in Israel and the United
States. Edith Rogovin Frankel interviews them twice: shortly after
they leave the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and again,
twenty-five years later, when they have long been settled in their
new lives. Their experiences-from their formative years in the
Soviet Union, to their decisions to leave, to their struggles to
receive permission to emigrate-illuminate the complex history of
Soviet Jews. The story of their emigration represents the universal
tale of anyone who has ever migrated, hoping to find a new and
better life elsewhere. Above all, this is the personal story of
these men and women, of the desires that inspired them and of the
dogged faith that kept them going.
Originally published in 1981, this book is an examination of the
politics of literary publishing in the Soviet Union, and in
particular during the period after Stalin's death, in the 1950s. Dr
Frankel focuses on the leading literary journal of the 1950s, Novy
Mir, between whose covers so much important literary work first
appeared: Pomerantsev's essay on sincerity in literature, Abramov's
literary criticism, and Dudintsev's Not By Bread Alone. It was Novy
Mir that published Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich in November, 1962. Under the editorship, first of
Aleksandr Tvardovsky, then of Konstantin Simonov, the journal was
strongly identified with the 'thaw', which, as Dr Drankel shows,
had, paradoxically, been antcipated in the literary criticism of
the last year of Stalin's life, a year known in other spheres for
its repressive character. A detailed study of the journal combined
with an analysis of the political and economic issues of the day
enables the reader to appreciate the constant interaction of
literature and politics in the Soviet Union.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 continues to be a subject of most
intense controversy; and the fundamental questions which have
divided observers over the last seventy years still stir fierce
debate. In this volume, eighteen leading specialists from different
generations, countries and schools of thought, re-examine the key
issues and events of that crucial year. Some of the articles
examine the unfolding crisis 'from below', describing developments
in specific localities or organisations: others put the emphasis on
the view as seen 'from above', on Lenin as leader of the Bolshevik
party and of the emergent Soviet states. Other contributors explore
the roles played by the officer corps, the industrialists, the
peasants, the factory workers and the Soviets as well as the part
of the Press and the different nationalities. Never before has so
comprehensive a selection of original essays on 1917, written in
the West, been collected in one volume.
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