"Черносотенцы" и революция
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Description:... A collection of essays, mainly aiming to justify the Black Hundred organizations in tsarist Russia. Ch. 4 (p. 83-110), "Pravda o pogromakh" ("The Truth on the Pogroms"), criticizes generally accepted views on the pogroms in Russia. Contends that the pogroms were not a Russian invention: they took place also in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. The causes of the Russian pogroms were neither racial nor religious, but were purely economic. Neither the Black Hundred nor the authorities were involved in the bloodiest pogroms, in 1903-6. Only half of the victims in the Russian pogroms were Jews; the rest were non-Jewish leftists or were killed by the Jewish self-defense. Holds that the Black Hundred should not be regarded as a predecessor of the Nazis. Ch. 5 (p. 111-134) continues to whitewash the Black Hundred from the accusation of participation in the pogroms. Dismisses Western criticism of some books published in Russia which are perceived worldwide as antisemitic.
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