Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Вопросы истории
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2006) 114-123
Keywords:
Ignatev, Nikolai Pavlovich
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The short term of Ignatiev as Minister of the Interior (May 1881-May 1882) had a significant effect on the fate of Russian Jews. Ignatiev was appointed to this position in the wake of pogroms in Ukraine. While the government ascribed the pogroms to socialist propaganda, Ignatiev regarded them as mob reactions against "Jewish exploiters" and succeeded in converting Tsar Alexander III to his view. Regional Commissions on the Jewish Question were established in August 1881, but even these advocated the abandonment of some limitations on Jews. Thus, in October 1881 the Tsar decreed the establishment of a Committee on Jews, headed by Gotovtsev, under the aegis of the Interior Ministry. The Committee, in fact run by Ignatiev, acted against a background of continuing pogroms; it proposed a set of new limitations on Jews, known as "Temporal Regulations", and aimed to placate the Christians. All the deputations of Jewish leaders to Ignatiev were useless - the Minister held the view that the Jews themselves were to blame for the pogroms. The Council of Ministers disapproved of the Ignatiev-Gotovtsev project, and the "Temporal Regulations" were decreed in moderated form.
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