Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Вестник Еврейского университета
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (1999) 42-94
Keywords:
Maklakov, V. A.
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews History
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Vasilii Maklakov, a leader of the right wing of the Russian pre-revolutionary Kadet party, harbored some anti-Jewish views, despite the fact that he fought against crude forms of antisemitism throughout his life. He believed that the individual could be antisemitic (e.g. boycott Jewish trade), but not the state. Supporting the idea of equality of rights for the Jews, he maintained that Russian society was not mature enough for this and toppled the bill for Jewish emancipation in the Duma in 1916. As a defender at the Beilis trial, Maklakov insisted that the goal of the court was to vindicate Beilis, but not all of Jewry, of the ritual murder accusation. During the civil war, while the entire Kadet party succumbed to the common antisemitic mood and condoned the pogroms of Denikin's army, Maklakov tried to convince Denikin to condemn the pogroms, at least symbolically. Dwells, also, on the correspondence between Maklakov and Shulgin in the 1920s. Shulgin regarded the Russian Revolution as a Jewish act intended to destroy the Russian state; he insisted on collective responsibility of the Jews for that, but spoke against pogroms. Maklakov saw the revolution as Russian, and opposed the principle of collective responsibility.
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