Book contents
- Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
- Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translation
- Terms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 1917: Antisemitism in the Moment of Revolution
- 2 ‘Red Pogroms’: Spring 1918
- 3 The Soviet Response to Antisemitism, 1918
- 4 Antisemitism and Revolutionary Politics: the Red Army in Ukraine, 1919
- 5 The Soviet Response to Antisemitism in Ukraine, February–May 1919
- 6 Jewish Communists and the Soviet Response to Antisemitism, May–December 1919
- 7 Reinscribing Antisemitism?
- Epilogue: In the Shadow of Pogroms
- Conclusions: Anti-Racist Praxis in the Russian Revolution
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Jewish Communists and the Soviet Response to Antisemitism, May–December 1919
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2019
- Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
- Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translation
- Terms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 1917: Antisemitism in the Moment of Revolution
- 2 ‘Red Pogroms’: Spring 1918
- 3 The Soviet Response to Antisemitism, 1918
- 4 Antisemitism and Revolutionary Politics: the Red Army in Ukraine, 1919
- 5 The Soviet Response to Antisemitism in Ukraine, February–May 1919
- 6 Jewish Communists and the Soviet Response to Antisemitism, May–December 1919
- 7 Reinscribing Antisemitism?
- Epilogue: In the Shadow of Pogroms
- Conclusions: Anti-Racist Praxis in the Russian Revolution
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After the full extent of antisemitism within the Red Army came into view in the summer of 1919, a renewed campaign emerged from the peripheral apparatuses of the Soviet state. Just as in the spring of 1918, it emanated not from the Party leadership, but from a group of non-Bolshevik Jewish socialists who had recently joined the Soviet government. As before, these activists elevated and singled out the fight against antisemitism as a separate sphere of Party work. The Soviet confrontation with antisemitism in late 1919 was the product, therefore, of a distinctly Soviet-Jewish political project, and to understand it, we must first account for the trajectory of the Jewish socialist movement in Ukraine between 1917 and 1919.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution , pp. 140 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019