Anatomy of Failure

The book is written on the basis of a material that was collected by interviewing and surveying refusal, studying their memoirs and archival documents, and is an attempt to display the life of the refusal in the Soviet Union in detail in detail as a social and political phenomenon. The author analyzes the causes and motives of Jewish emigration from the USSR, a degrading procedure for submitting the necessary documents in OVIR, the reasons for refusal. Social life of the community of refusalists who did not want to surrender and opposed to the Soviet state is described in detail in the book along with various forms of struggle for the right to emigration (demonstrations, hunger strikes, individual and group appeals and protest letters, the use of pressure of the West, etc) Special attention is paid to the process of developing Jewish self-consciousness among refusal books: the study of Jewish history and culture, Jewish holidays, learning Hebrew.
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