pp. 671-687
Domestic Pressures and the Politics of Exit: Trends in Soviet Emigration Policy
Laurie P. Salitan examines the reasons for large-scale Soviet Jewish emigration in the 1970s and 1980s. She argues that a variety of domestic, rather than international, constraints are the primary determinants of Soviet emigration policy.
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