Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter With Late Imperial Russia. He is writing a history of the Soviet dissident movement.

Uncertainty and Anxiety: On Khrushchev’s Thaw

Uncertainty and Anxiety: On Khrushchev’s Thaw Uncertainty and Anxiety: On Khrushchev’s Thaw

Why did different segments of the Soviet population experience Khrushchev’s reforms in radically different ways?  

Sep 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Nathans

The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry

Gal Beckerman's When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone is an engaging account of the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.

Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Nathans

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