Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917–1920, Oleg Budnitskii (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 [2005]), x + 508 pp., hardcover, 79.95
The years 1917–1920, the period that marked the breakup of the Russian Empire and the Civil War that followed, were horrific for the East European Jewish communities located in the path of the fighting. Estimates of the number of Jews killed by outright violence range from 50,000 to as high as 200,0...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 349-351 |
| Review of: | Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917 - 1920 (Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) (Trachtenberg, Barry)
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| Summary: | The years 1917–1920, the period that marked the breakup of the Russian Empire and the Civil War that followed, were horrific for the East European Jewish communities located in the path of the fighting. Estimates of the number of Jews killed by outright violence range from 50,000 to as high as 200,000. Counting also those wounded, displaced, traumatized, and orphaned, the number of Jews directly affected was likely close to one million. The level of violence against Jews was at times so extreme and orchestrated that it rendered the term “pogrom” insufficient to describe it, and helped set the stage for the genocidal assaults that occurred two decades later., Due to technological innovations in journalism, Jewish communities around the world were able to study reports of the violence. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct037 |