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May 18, 2018

A Great Historian of Russia on the Soviet Jewish Plight

Richard Pipes, in memoriam.

Richard Pipes, one of America’s foremost historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, died yesterday at the age of ninety-four. In a book review he contributed to Commentary in 1989, when glasnost and the release of substantial numbers of Soviet Jews had made possible new and better-informed histories of Soviet Jewry, he presented a characteristically incisive summation of the situation of Jews under the Communist regime:

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May 18, 2018

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    Richard Pipes, in memoriam.

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