Brendan McGeever (University of London Birkbeck College)

Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This study offers the first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution. Brendan McGeever uncovers the surprising depth of antisemitism within sections of the working class, peasantry and Red Army, and reveals the explosive overlap between revolutionary politics and antisemitism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781316647165
• ISBN-10: 1316647161
• Artikelnr.: 60014289

Autorenporträt

Brendan McGeever is Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London. His work examines the relationship between antisemitism and racism, historically up to the present day. He is based at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches in the Department of Psychosocial Studies. He is a 2019 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, with his work featuring across television and radio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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. Conclusions: anti-racist praxis in the Russian Revolution
7. Reinscribing antisemitism? The Bolshevik approach to the 'Jewish question'
Epilogue: in the shadow of pogroms
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.