Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and nuanced historical account of the role Jews played in the Russian Civil War. Oleg Budnitskii shows that Jews were not just victims of the bloody pogroms but also active participants in the anti-Bolshevik White movement as well as the establishment of the Soviet state.
Trade Review"Budnitskii's excellent study will become the starting point for all future investigations of Russia's Jews between Reds and Whites." * Donald J. Raleigh,
Kritika, in a review of the Russian edition *
"Oleg Budnitskii, in this thoroughly researched, clearly written, and well-documented book, shows that the story of Jews in the Civil War years is much more complicated than simply being Red or White. . . . Rather than seeing pogroms as the outcome of ideological fights between Communists and anti-Communists in times of civil war, Budnitskii situates anti-Jewish violence in the broader context of war." * David Shneer,
The Russian Review, in a review of the Russian edition *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Jews in the Russian Empire, 1772-1917
Chapter 2. The Jews and the Russian Revolution
Chapter 3. The Bolsheviks and the Jews
Chapter 4. "No Shneerzons!" The White Movement and the Jews
Chapter 5. Trump Card: Antisemitism in White Ideology and Propaganda
Chapter 6. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Pogroms of 1918¬-1920
Chapter 7. Russian Liberalism and the "Jewish Question"
Chapter 8. The "Jewish Question," White Diplomacy, and the Western Democracies
Chapter 9. Battling Balfour: White Diplomacy, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Problem of the Establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine
Chapter 10. Jews and the Red Army
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography of Archival Sources
Index
Acknowledgments
