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A 5 page research paper that investigates the autobiography of Mary Leder (My Life in Stalinist Russia, 2001) in order to report on what life was like in the former Soviet Union for Jews and how and why this changed after World War II. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Soviet Union and join in the effort of building a socialist nation. Fifteen-year-old Mary was uprooted from the only culture she had ever known and moved with her parents to
Birobidzhan, the Soviet Unions concept ion of a socialist Jewish homeland (Leder, 2001). Like her parents, she believed in socialism and internationalism, but by 1944, she became totally disillusioned with
the anti-Semitism and cultural xenophobia of the post-war USSR. While Mary and her parents imagined that Jews would be treated with equality under the Communist system, this turned out to
be a false hope. After arriving in Birobidzhan, Mary and her family found the so-called Soviet Jewish homeland to be mud-ridden and far from the creative center of
the Soviet regime. Mary opted to move to Moscow, five thousand miles away, and her parents agreed because her father was convinced that nothing bad could ever happen to anyone
in a socialist country. As this suggests, the hope and promise that was felt within the Soviet Jewish community in the early 1930s is touching. Leder speaks of how the
attitude of her peer group in Birobidzhan was contagious. So what if there was no plumbing and the food consists mainly of watery cabbage soup, cooked millet and tea
with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backward heritage of the tsars in Birobidzhan and all over the
country (Leder, 2001, p. 19). Nevertheless, corrupt bureaucrats, a system of privileges restricted to Party members, and harassment instead of the support they expected wore down the
idealism of Marys parents. In 1933, after a brief try at life in Stalingrad, Marys parents applied to return to the US. Mary, however, was not allowed to return with
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