Jonathan L Dekel Chen: 1 book
Farming the Red Land
Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable...
