TY - BOOK ID - 80838253 TI - The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia : Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power PY - 2017 SN - 9780253024633 0253024633 9780253024510 0253024668 9780253024664 PB - Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism and communism KW - Jewish communists KW - Jews KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Communism and nationalism KW - Communism KW - Communists KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - Belarus KW - Republic of Belarus KW - Rėspublika Belarusʹ KW - Republic of Byelarusʹ KW - Respublika Byelarusʹ KW - Byelarus KW - République de Bélarus KW - República de Belarús KW - Republik Belarus KW - Weissrussland KW - White Russia KW - Belorussia KW - Belorus KW - Biélorussie KW - Bielorussia KW - Białoruś KW - Беларусь KW - Рэспубліка Беларусь KW - Республика Беларусь KW - ベラルーシ KW - Berarūshi KW - Byelorussian S.S.R. KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80838253 AB - A Dorothy Rosenberg Prize-winner: "A remarkable social history that investigates the process of Sovietization among Jews in Belorussia" (Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of In the Shadow of the Shtetl ). This insightful history demonstrates how Jewish life in Belorussia fundamentally changed when Jews started joining the Bolshevik movement and populating the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. While Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of Bolshevik history, it also shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories and workshops, workers' clubs and union meetings, and on the Jewish streets of White Russia. In the eyes of the Bolshevik leadership, the project of transforming Jews into integrated Soviet citizens was bound inextricably to labor. The protagonists here are shoemakers, speculators, glassmakers, peddlers, leatherworkers, needleworkers, soldiers, students, and local party operatives who were swept up, willingly or otherwise, under the banner of Marxist socialism. With extensive research and keen insight, Sloin stresses the fundamental relationship between economy and identity formation as party officials grappled with the Jewish Question in the wake of the revolution. ER -