ISBN:
9781108164498
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 247 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2019
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Rossijskaja kommunističeskaja partija (bol'ševikov)
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Geschichte 1917-1919
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Antisemitism / Soviet Union / History
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Jewish socialists / Soviet Union / Attitudes
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Antisemitismus
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Pogrom
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Oktoberrevolution
;
Soviet Union / Ethnic relations
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Russland
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Russland
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Rossijskaja kommunističeskaja partija (bol'ševikov)
;
Oktoberrevolution
;
Antisemitismus
;
Geschichte 1917-1919
;
Russland
;
Rossijskaja kommunističeskaja partija (bol'ševikov)
;
Antisemitismus
;
Pogrom
;
Geschichte 1917-1919
Abstract:
When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination. In the very moment of revolution, these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept the former Pale of Settlement. The pogroms posed fundamental questions of the Bolshevik project, revealing the depth of antisemitism within sections of the working class, peasantry and Red Army. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution offers the first book-length analysis of the Bolshevik response to antisemitism. Contrary to existing understandings, it reveals this campaign to have been led not by the Party leadership, as is often assumed, but by a loosely connected group of radicals who mobilized around a Jewish political subjectivity. By examining pogroms committed by the Red Army, Brendan McGeever also uncovers the explosive overlap between revolutionary politics and antisemitism, and the capacity for class to become racialized in a moment of crisis
DOI:
10.1017/9781108164498
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