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The Russian Revolution and the perception of the Jews

The Russian Revolution and the perception of the Jews

Prof. Aviel Roshwald

An important outcome of the Russian Revolution and the events following it was the growing fusion of Jews and revolutionary movements, especially Bolshevism.

How did this development affect antisemitic rhetoric and actions?

References

  • Ablovatski, Eliza, “The 1919 Central European Revolutions and the Judeo-Bolshevik Myth,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, vol. 17, no. 3 (2010), pp. 473 – 489.

  • Crim, Brian E., “Our Most Serious Enemy: The Specter of Judeo-Bolshevism in the German Military Community, 1914-1923,” Central European History, vol. 44, no. 4 (2011), pp. 624 – 641.

  • Gerrits, Andre, The Myth of Jewish Communism: A Historical Interpretation (New York: Peter Lang: 2009).

  • Hanebrink, Paul , “Transnational Culture War: Christianity, Nation, and the Judeo‐Bolshevik Myth in Hungary, 1890-1920,” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 80, no. 1 (March 2008), pp. 55 – 80.

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