Politics and Nationality in Contemporary Soviet-Jewish Emigration, 1968-89

According to this study, Soviet policy toward Jewish emigration is ruled by domestic affairs rather than foreign. It challenges the view that the exodus from the USSR is related to the superpower climate, and offers a comparison with Soviet-German emigration.

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Part 1 Survey of Soviet Jewish history - precursors of the emigration movement: the early Soviet period; Stalinism, 1930-1953; the roots of anti-zionism and anti-semitism in the post-war period; contemporary status of Jewish culture. Part 2 The birth of the Jewish emigration movement: post-war revival of Jewish national consciousness; emigration policy prior to 1968; the birth of the contemporary emigration movement and the Soviet response; the anti-zionist campaign of the 1970s; The Soviet exit visa application process; the education tax. Part 3 Post-zionist emigration: the drop-out phenomenon - causes and effects; application related obstacles to emigration; visa application denials under international law; the Helsinki final act; the second decade - the halting of emigration, 1980-86; a new beginning, "perestroika" emigration during 1987-1989; Part 4 Soviet Germans - a brief history an introduction to their emigration: German immigration to Russia; early nationality policy and the Soviet Germans; World War II and its aftermath; Chancellor Adenauer's visit to Moscow; the Soviet German experience since 1965; a comparison of Germans, Jews, and their emigration. Part 5 The domestic context of Soviet emigration policy: Soviet Jewish emigration policy - 1970-1973; Soviet Jewish emigration policy - 1974-1979; Jewish and German emigration - 1980-1986; Gorbachev's objectives and post-1986 emigration.