Did Russian Jewry exist prior to 1917? / Eli Lederhendler -- Patterns of internal Jewish migration in the Russian empire / Shaul Stampfer -- Redefining the Jewish question from Lenin to Gorbachev : terminology or ideology? / Naomi Blank -- Soviet cultural and ethnic policies toward Jews : a legacy reassessed / Igor Krupnik -- Jews into peasants? : solving the Jewish question in Birobidzhan / Robert Weinberg -- The doctors' plot : Stalin's solution to the Jewish question / Iakov Etinger -- Anti-Jewish pogroms in the first Russian Revolution, 1905-1907 / Abraham Ascher -- Russian Jewry as the l̀ittle nation' of the Russian revolution / John D. Klier -- The doctor's plot : the non-Jewish response / Alexander Lokshin -- The unique features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union / Mordechai Altshuler -- Revival, reconstruction or rejection : Soviet Jewry in the postwar years, 1944-1948 / Allan L. Kagedan -- The re-education of Der Nister, 1922-1929 / David G. Roskies -- Vasilii Grossman and the Holocaust on Soviet soil / John Garrard -- Institutionalized Jewish culture from the 1960s to the mid-1980s / Velvel Chernin -- Russian and Hebrew literature in cross mirrors / Dimitri Segal -- Judaism in the USSR, 1917-1930 : the fate of religious education / David E. Fishman -- The Jewish religion in the Soviet Union after World War II / Yaacov Ro'i -- Synagogues and synagogue life in Georgia in the postwar era / Lili Baazova -- The Soviet position on the establishment of the state of Israel / Iurii Strizhov -- Soviet diplomacy and the issue of Jewish immigration to Israel, 1946-1953 / Nina Sementchenko and Sergei Mirokhin -- The beginnings of the struggle for Soviet Jewish emigration and its impact on Israel-Soviet relations / Yosef Govrin -- United States policy and Soviet Jewish emigration from Nixon to Bush / Minton Goldman -- Trends in Soviet Jewish demography since the Second World War / Mark Tolts -- Russia's economic future : the calculus of Jewish emigration / Steven Rosefielde -- Conflicting values among the Jewish population of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk / Rozalina Ryvkina -- Emigration, immigration and culture change : towards a trans-national Russian' Jewish community? / Fran Markowitz.