Red Blues

Due to easing of Soviet immigration policy in the last 20 years, a third wave of Russian immigrants--particularly Jews and the better educated--have flocked to the US. Shasha (computer science, New York U.) and Russian-born playwright Shron interviewed a cross-section of immigrants who could concur with one's bittersweet assessment that: "You die in one life, and you emerge in the other." Includes a chronology, photographs, and a sociologist's comments on these resilient people's "culture of savvy." Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR