The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck
Eight Jewish Lives under Stalin
The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.
Alice Nakhimovsky
is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Russian at Colgate University. Her books include Russian Jewish Literature and Identity,Dear Mendland Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals in Russia and America written with Roberta Newman, which won a National Jewish Book Award.
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