The case of the history of Soviet Jewry
David Harris was active for many years in one of the most successful human rights campaigns in modern history, the Soviet Jewish Movement, where he was the national coordinator for Freedom Sunday, a demonstration that took place in Washington DC. the largest Jewish gathering in American history. The rally was the culmination of a decades-long movement to liberate Soviet Jewry. It was a campaign driven by post-Holocaust guilt, civil rights activism and a new sense of. The Soviet Union, or USSR, consisted of countries in Eastern Europe and Asia and survived until its fall. The Soviet Union was the first Marxist-communist state in the world.