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The October 1905 pogroms and the Russian authorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Victoria Khiterer
Victoria Khiterer*
Affiliation:
History Department, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, USA
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*Email: victoria.khiterer@millersville.edu
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This article analyzes the October 1905 pogroms in the Russian Empire. It explores the reasons for the pogroms, the perpetrators, the victims, and the consequences for the Jewish population. The article shows the differences and peculiarities of the pogroms, which occurred in the cities and shtetls, rural areas, on the railroads, and in the ports. The article also explores the attitude and involvement of the higher and local authorities, police, and troops in the pogroms. Historians continue to debate whether these pogroms occurred spontaneously or were organized by the Tsarist authorities. This article provides considerable evidence that the October 1905 pogroms were not a spontaneous reaction of conservatives to the revolutionary events, but rather was the policy of the Russian government directed toward the suppression of the revolutionary movement.

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pogromsFirst Russian Revolutionanti-SemitismRussian Empire
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 43 , Issue 5: Special Section: War, violence, and the military during late socialism and transition , September 2015 , pp. 788 - 803
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Copyright © 2015 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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