Nicholas Lane essay

In an essay on the Jewish community in the Soviet Union, Nichols Lane writes about his family’s trip to the USSR; notes that the Jewish communities in Moscow and Leningrad are in a transition period as new faces enter into leadership positions and writes of the burden that it causes; shares that some refuseniks still prefer to covertly promote Jewish activism; writes of the need to create new techniques that cast a wider net and spread resources more evenly to refuseniks; writes that refuseniks still face a complicated and discriminatory Soviet government system that makes emigration difficult; shares his thoughts and feelings on the trip.