Language:
French
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah
Angaben zur Quelle:
189 (2008) 319-357
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Pogroms
Abstract:
Presents recent studies on the pogroms during the Russian civil wars (1918-21), which left over 100,000 Jews dead, 200,000 wounded, and 300,000 orphaned, as well as an appendix (pp. 338-357) with an excerpt from the book "Kniga Pogromov", edited by Lidia Borissovna Milikova, on the pogrom in Proskurov, Ukraine, in 1919. Argues that the pogroms of the civil wars, which greatly exceeded the two earlier waves of pogroms in the history of modern Russia, were preceded by the banalization of violence against the Jews in the form of expulsions, deportations, and pogroms in areas near the front and the proximity of the rear during World War I. Another explanatory factor was the supposed collusion between Jews and Bolsheviks, which crystallized the hatreds of all those opposing Bolshevism. Emphasizes the situation in Ukraine, where 78% of all the pogroms took place, and shows that all the parties involved in the civil wars were guilty of violence against the Jews. Discusses the different characteristics of pogroms perpetrated by the Whites, the Ukrainian people's army, the warlords, the Reds, and Ukrainian citizens, as well as the qualitative difference between the massacres carried out during the civil wars by army units, convinced of the necessity and legitimacy of exterminating civilian populations viewed as enemies, and "traditional" pogroms perpetrated by neighbors in times of peace.
Note:
Includes the report of A.I. Gillerson on the pogroms in Ukraine in 1919 (pp.338-357).
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