Dr. L. Belenkaya and Dr. B. Singer, employees of the Institute for the History of Zionism at Tel Aviv University, in their book turn to the theme of the confrontation of the Jews of the Soviet Union with omnipotent power from the end of World War II until the mid-70s. 20 century. The book is dedicated to one of the most controversial periods in the history of Soviet Jewry. The study is based on previously unpublished documents from the secret archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the KGB of the USSR and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, as well as some little-known original texts of Jewish samizdat.