A history of the lives of Jews in the Soviet Union in the 20th century, Nora Levin's last work offers a portrait of Soviet Jewry from the overthrow of the Tsarist regime by the Bolsheviks and takes the reader through pogroms, resettlements, World War II, and the Stalin Era, to the present-day refuseniks. In compiling this work, Nora Levin, author of the critically acclaimed "The Holocaust", has painstakingly researched a massive amount of first-person reports and documents as well as secondary resources. She offers a detailed history - one that presents the personal descriptions of the individual struggles for freedom against the backdrop of sweeping political and economic upheavals both within the Soviet Union and in the international arena.