The Refusenik Legacy: The Jewish Nation Liberation Movement and the Dismantlement of the USSR

• In Event: Let My People Go: The Refusenik Movement in the Soviet Union

Abstract

Maxim D. Shrayer’s paper considers the historical and demographic dimensions of the refusenik movement. Through a comparative analysis of the dissident movement and the refusenik movement in the 1960s-1980s, the paper seeks to assess the specific place of Jewish refuseniks as the largest Soviet community of open dissenters.

Author

• Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College