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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this interesting and original book, Brian J. Horowitz focuses on Vladimir Jabotinsky's transformation from a supporter of liberalism in Russia to a Zionist who advocated extreme conservatism in the mid- 1920s.
-- Abraham Ascher * Studies in Contemporary Jewry An Annual XXXII *
In this latest, absorbing book [Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925] Horowitz focuses on Jabotinsky's years in Russia, drawing on detailed Russian and Hebrew sources.
-- Colin Shindler * The Jewish Chronicle *
In his careful intellectual history, Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925, Brian Horowitz shows that Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionist congress was the crowning glory of his "Russian period," when the Russian-speaking journalist and intellectual enshrined a vision of a Jewish home with a Jewish majority in British Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.
-- David Shneer, University of Colorado, Boulder * Russian Review *
It is Horowitz's personal opinion that Jabotinsky's "outsize image deflates considerably when one compares him to Ben-Gurion". However, a careful, dispassionate reading of this book most probably will convince the objective reader otherwise. And for that result, Horowitz deserves praise.
-- Yisrael Medad - Menachem Begin Heritage Center * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *
Horowitz's book, a critical rethinking of Jabotinsky's Russian years, is a valuable addition to this scholarship, which makes a significant con- ceptual and factual contribution to the historiography of both Russia and her Jews.
-- Vassili Schedrin - Queen's University * AJS REVIEW *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Vladimir Jabotinsky and Russia
1. A Zionist in Odessa, circa 1900–03
2. Zionism Before 1905
3. In Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1905–06
4. The Decade between the Revolution of 1905 and World War I (1907–1914)
5. Political Alliances Break, Jabotinsky Goes His Own Way (1907–1914)
6. The Jewish Legion's Russian Inspiration, 1915–1917
7. Post-War Disappointments, Palestine 1918–1922
8. Russian-Jewish Emigration and the Path to Zionist Revisionism, 1923–1925
9. Russia in the Life and Work of Jabotinsky After 1925
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
