by Zvi Gitelman A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present The book traces the historical experience of Jews in Russia from a period of creativity and repression in the second half of the nineteenth century through the paradoxes posed by the post-Soviet era.

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