The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck : : Eight Jewish Lives under Stalin / / Alice Nakhimovsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Nakhimovsky, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; A Note on Transcription --; Preface --; Introduction: The Soviet-Jewish Historical Calendar and Moral Decision-Making, 1890 to 1953 --; 1. Origins --; Introduction --; Doba-Mera Medvedeva: A Working Girl Seeks a Future --; Leyb Kvitko: Shtetl, Poetry, Violence --; Solomon Lozovsky: Blacksmith, Autodidact, Orator --; 2. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part I --; Leyb Kvitko: Transformations --; Solomon Lozovsky: Fighter, Compromiser, Fiction Writer --; Lina Shtern: A Career in Science and a Fateful Choice --; Doba-Mera Medvedeva: Two Borders, Poor Choices --; 3. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part II --; Nadezhda and Alexander Ulanovsky: Anarchism to Espionage --; Mary Leder: Santa Monica, Birobidzhan, Moscow --; Lilianna Lungina: A German Child, a French Child, a Soviet Adolescent --; 4. Negotiating the Late 1930s: Terror and Career --; Lilianna Lungina: A World of Contradictions --; Kvitko: Prosperity and Compromise --; Mary Leder: Close Encounters --; Nadezhda Ulanovskaya: Communications and Failed Communications --; Vasily Grossman: Jews vs. Bolsheviks, and Jewish Bolsheviks --; Doba-Mera Medvedeva: Manuscripts Burn --; 5. War: 1941–1945 --; Kvitko: Despair and Faith --; Shtern: Iconoclasm --; Leder: Evacuation and Trauma --; Medvedeva: Evacuation without Privilege, Grief beyond Resentment --; Grossman: A Personal Quest --; 6. Jews, Scientists, and the Trial of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, 1944–1952 --; Kvitko: “I don’t value my life. I want to leave here with a pure heart” --; Lozovsky: “I can’t look Academician Shtern in the eyes” --; Shtern: “I always tell the truth” --; Grossman: Scientists and Old Bolsheviks --; 7. Jews, Doctors, and Aliens --; Nadezhda Ulanovskaya: Foreign Connections --; Mary Leder: Endgame --; Lilianna Lungina: Reality and Rumor --; Vasily Grossman: A Novel and a Letter --; 8. What Happened Next --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9798887192710; 9783111023540; 9783111178042; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319131; 9783111318189
• DOI: 10.1515/9798887192710
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alice Nakhimovsky.

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 heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.