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Three major waves of anti-Jewish rioting swept southern Russia and Russian Poland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, distinguished scholars of Russian Jewish history explore the origins and nature of these pogroms, which were among the most extensive outbreaks of antisemitic violence before the Holocaust. Using new approaches to the study of Russian history, the contributors examine each wave of violence in turn. They look at the role of violence in Russian society; the prejudices, stereotypes, and psychology of both the educated society and the rural masses; the work of the Tsarist regime, especially the police and the army as agents of order and control; and the impact of the pogroms on the sense of Jewish identity and security in the Empire. In his conclusion, Hans Rogger compares these riots with both pogroms elsewhere in Europe and anti-Negro violence in the United States during the same period.

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• Full title: Pogroms
• Subtitle: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History
• Author: John Doyle Klier, Shlomo Lambroza
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780521528511
• ISBN: 0521528518
• ID: 02033903
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 632 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 151 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2004

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