They Did Not Dwell Alone
Subtitle: Jewish Immigration from the Soviet Union, 1967-1990 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 16, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801856167
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Immigration & emigration; International relations; Jewish studies; Political science & theory; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Persecutions; Emigration And Immigration; History Of Jews; History; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Israel; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; International Relations - General; Political Science / International Relations; Jewish - General; Jews; Migrations; Soviet Union
Description: Petrus Buwalda was ambassador of the Netherlands to the USSR from 1986 to 1990. He has since discussed emigration with many Jewish emigrants, and examined archives and interviewed officials in his own country, the United States, Israel, and Russia in order to tell the full story.

He raises many complex issues, including the troubling question of whether anonymity or publicity best served the interests of those wanting to leave and the effects of U.S. and other Western pressures on Soviet authorities to ease restrictions.