Another Attempt to Control Historical Writing on the Role of Jews in the USSR
Apropos the recent series on chapters from Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years Together (especially Chapter 18), a new textbook for university students in Russia emphasizes the elite status of Jews in the early decades of the USSR. (JTA, August 8, 2010: “Russian Textbook Seen as Anti-Semitic“) The Foreword states, “For the greater part of its 70-year history, […]