REFUSENIKS

REFUSENIKS
REFUSENIKS, Jews who wished to leave the U.S.S.R. but were refused permission to do so. Some were allowed to leave in 1977, and under the policy of glasnost declared by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, most of the long-standing refuse-niks were allowed to leave in 1988-89. For a full discussion of the subject see russia .

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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