Soviet Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust

Since the opening of Soviet archives in the late 1980s it has become possible to examine the vast quantity of material from the 1939 census with once top-secret data from the Central Bureau of Statistics. This wealth of data allowed the author to undertake a broad analysis of the principal demographic and social processes at work among Soviet Jews during the 1930s, on the one hand, and their implication for the Holocaust, on the other.