Part I. Government ideology and the Jews: 1. The Jewish national question in the Soviet Union; 2. Official Soviet statements on the Jewish question; Part II. Jews as victims of Soviet policy: 3. Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union; 4. The campaigns against 'Jewish nationalism' and `cosmopolitanism'; 5. Jews on trial in the Soviet Union; Part III. The Zionist issue: 6. The Soviet regime and Zionism; Part IV. Jews and the Jewish people in Soviet society: 7. Jewish culture in the Soviet Union; 8. The Jewish religion in the Soviet Union; 9. Jews in Soviet government; 10. The Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan; Part V. The Jewish experience as mirrored in Soviet publications: 11. Jews in Soviet literature; 12. The Holocaust and Jewish resistance as reflected in Soviet academic literature and the press; Part IV. A separate development: 13. The Oriental Jews of the Soviet Union.