The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroicall...
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Preface
Introduction: The Soviet-Jewish Historical Calendar and Moral Decision-Making, 1890 to 1953
1. Origins
Doba-Mera Medvedeva: A Workin...
Tentang Penulis
Alice Nakhimovsky is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Russian at Colgate University. Her books include Russian Jewish Literature and Identi...