Fifty Years Later: A Response to Rene Beermann, “The 1970–71 Soviet Trials of Zionists: Some Legal Aspects”

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Notes

1 Yuri Andropov to CPSU Central Committee, April 30, 1970, in Boris Morozov, Documents on Soviet Jewish Emigration (Frank Cass; London, 1999), 84–85.

2 See, for example, Mark Azbel, Refusenik: Trapped in the Soviet Union.

3 As one activist summoned for interrogation in Leningrad was bluntly told, there was no point in withholding information, “in the end we're told everything” – testimony of Kreina, sister of Hillel, Shur, January 21, 2016.

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Yaacov Ro'i

Yaacov Ro'i is professor of history emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. He has published extensively on the history of Soviet Jewry. His last book, edited, is The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union (Woodrow Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins, 2012).