Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,3 (1987) 287-296
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Pogroms
Abstract:
Denies the traditional assumption of Jewish historians that the Russian government was responsible for organizing the pogroms in 1903-06 in order to turn popular discontent against the Jews. None of the ministers in office during this period can be implicated in such responsibility. Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky (Minister of the Interior, 1904-05) and Sergei Witte (Premier) opposed anti-Jewish policies. Vyacheslav von Plehve (Minister of the Interior, 1902-04), though antisemitic and reactionary, was mainly concerned with preventing disorder; there is no evidence for the belief that he organized the Kishinev pogrom. The pogroms took place as part of a period of violence, peasant rebellions, and workers' strikes that the small, poorly-trained police force and unreliable army could do little to restrain. However, the government's antisemitic policies had created an atmosphere conducive to anti-Jewish violence.
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