Jewistan
I'm doing research for my satirical novella set in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in the USSR of the mid-1930s.
The stuff below is highly relevant to my interests.
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Akselrod, Meer (Mark) Moiseevich At the Canned Food Factory 1936 (via http://bobart.org/docent/russiky%20paintings/)
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Во-первых, по нему практически отсутствует пассажирское движение, на один встречный пассажирский поезд или электричку приходится полтора десятка поездов грузовых, так, причем, в обоих направлениях. (via ervix: Дальневосточный Тель-Авив: поездка в Биробиджан.)
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It was dangerous to walk the streets in many Soviet cities in the 1930s. The
new industrial towns and the workers’ settlements in old ones were the most
perilous. Here drink, the congregation of restless single men, inadequate policing, bad living conditions, and unpaved and unlighted streets all contributed to a lawless, frontier atmosphere. Robberies, murders, drunken fights,
and random attacks on passersby were common. Ethnic conflicts often occurred at worksites and barracks with an ethnically mixed labor force. The authorities attributed the problems to peasant workers newly arrived from the
countryside, “often with dark pasts or déclassés elements. -
7 Января. Рождество. Продолжается оттепель. Вечером на Красюковке в маленьких домах, засыпанных снегом, везде светились огоньки лампад и праздника. Вдали слышался звон.
