Descript |
xvi, 220 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
Note |
"The idea for this book originated at an international academic conference held in Stockholm in May 2005, titled "Anti-Jewish violence: reconceptualizing the pogrom in European history, 17th-20th century."-- Introduction. |
Contents |
What's in a pogrom? European Jews in the age of violence / David Engel -- 1915 and the war pogrom paradigm in the Russian empire / Eric Lohr -- The role of personality in the first (1914-1915) Russian occupation of Galicia and Bukovina / Peter Holquist -- Freedom, shortages, violence: the origins of the "revolutionary anti-Jewish pogrom" in Russia, 1917-1918 / Vladimir P. Buldakov -- Preventing pogroms: patterns in Jewish politics in early twentieth-century Russia / Vladimir Levin -- The sword hanging over their heads: the significance of pogrom for Russian Jewish everyday life and self-understanding (the case of Kiev) / Natan M. Meir -- The possibility of the impossible: pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina -- Was Lithuania a pogrom-free zone? (1881-1940) / Vladas Sirutavičius and Darius Staliūnas -- The missing pogroms of Belorussia, 1881-1882: conditions and motives of an absence of violence / Claire Le Foll -- Ethnic conflict and modernization in the interwar period: the case of Soviet Belorussia / Arkadi Zeltser -- Defusing the ethnic bomb: resolving local conflict through philanthropy in the interwar USSR / Jonathan Dekel-Chen. |
ISBN |
9780253355201 |
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0253355206 |
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