Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941 Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
List of Abbreviations, Transliterated Terms, and Translation Equivalents....................xiii
Note on Transliteration....................xvii
Introduction....................I
1 From Shtetl to Colony, 1917-1924....................II 2 Building a Colonization Movement: Theory to Practice....................34
3 Colonization and Diaspora Politics....................69
4 Soviet Power and Life in the Colonies, 1925-1929....................96
5 Collectivization and Its Limits, 1929-1934....................131
6 Soviet-Jewish Farmers, 1935-1941....................168
Conclusion....................199
Appendixes....................209
1. The Western USSR during the Interwar Period....................209
2. Areas of Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Crimea and Southern Ukraine, 1923-1941....................210
3. Chronology....................211
Notes....................215
Bibliography....................325
Index....................353