Two Hundred Years Together, 1795-1916
Volume 1. Before the Revolution
Chapter 1: Before 19th century – translated by R. Butler and J. Harris.
Chapter 2: During the reign of Alexander I
Chapter 3: During the reign of Nicholas I – translated!
Chapter 4: During the period of reforms – translated!
Chap 5: After the murder of Alexander II – translated!
Chap 6: In the Russian revolutionary movement
Chap 7: The birth of Zionism
Chap 8: At the turn of the 20th century
Chap 9: During the Revolution of 1905
Chap 10: During the period of Duma
Chap 11: The Jewish and Russian national consciousness prior to the World War I
Chap 12: During WWI (1914-1916)
Volume 2. During Soviet period
Introduction
Chapter 13: February Revolution- translated!
Chapter 14: During 1917 – translated!
Chapter 15: Among Bolsheviks – translated!
Chapter 16: During the Civil War – translated!
Chapter 17: In emigration between the World Wars – translated!
Chapter 18: During 1920s – translated!
Chapter 19: During 1930s – translated!
Chapter 20: In the camps of GULag – translated!
Chapter 21: During the Soviet-German War – translated!
Chapter 22: From the end of the war up to Stalin’s death – translated!
Chapter 23: Before Six-Day War – translated!
Chapter 24: Breaking away from Bolshevism – translated!
Chapter 25: Accusing Russia – translated!
Chapter 26: Beginning of Exodus
Chapter 27: About assimilation. Author’s after-word – translated!
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During the Constituent Assembly elections “more than 80% of Jewish population in Russia had voted” for Zionist parties.[86] Lenin wrote that 550 thousands voted for Jewish nationalists.[87] “Most Jewish parties have formed a united national list of candidates; seven deputies were elected from that list – six Zionists” and Gruzenberg. The success of Zionists was facilitated by the recently published declaration of British Minister of Foreign Affairs Balfour on the establishment of ‘Jewish national home’ in Palestine, which was “met with enthusiasm by the majority of Russian Jewry (celebratory demonstrations, rallies and worship services took place in Moscow, Petrograd, Odessa, Kiev and many other cities).”[88]
Prior to the October coup, Bolshevism was not very influential among Jews. But just before the uprising, Natanson, Kamkov, and Shteinberg on behalf of the left Socialist Revolutionaries had signed a combat pact with Bolsheviks Trotsky and Kamenev.[89] And some Jews distinguished themselves among the Bolsheviks in their very first victories and some even became famous. The commissar of the famed Latvian regiments of the 12th Army, which did so much for the success of Bolshevik coup, was Semyon Nakhimson. “Jewish soldiers played a notable role during preparation and execution of the armed uprising of October 1917 in Petrograd and other cities, and also during suppression of mutinies and armed resurrections against the new Soviet regime.”[90]
It is widely known that during the ‘historical’ session of the Congress of Soviets on October 27 two acts, the ‘Decree on Land’ and the ‘Decree on Peace’, were passed. But it didn’t leave a mark in history that after the ‘Decree on Peace’ but before the ‘Decree on Land’ another resolution was passed. It declared it “a matter of honor for local soviets to prevent Jewish and any other pogroms by dark forces.”[91](Pogroms by ‘Red forces of light’ were not anticipated.)
So even here, at the Congress of Workers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, the Jewish question was put ahead of the peasant one.
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[1] Delo Naroda, March 25, 1917, p. 3
[2] Russkaya Volya, April 14, 1917, p. 1; April 20, p. 1. See also Rech, April 16, 1917, p. 1; April 20, p. 1.
[3] Russkaya Volya, April 23, 1917, p. 4.
[4] Birzhevye Vedomosti, May 24, 1917, p. 2.
[5] See, for instance, Russkaya Volya, May 10, 1917, p. 5; Birzhevye Vedomosti, May 9, 1917, p. 5; Birzhevye Vedomosti, June 1, 1917, p. 6; Rech, July 29, 1917, p. 6.
[6] Kratkaya Evreiskaya Entsiklopediya [The Short Jewish Encyclopedia (henceforth—SJE)]. Jerusalem, 1994. v. 7, p. 399.
[7] Ibid., p. 380-381.
[8] Ibid., p. 379.
[9] G. Aronson. Evreyskaya obshchestvennost v Rossii v 1917-1918 [The Jewish Public in Russia in 1917-1918] // Kniga o russkom evreystve: 1917-1967 [The Book of Russian Jewry: 1917-1967 (henceforth – BRJ-2)]. New York: Association of Russian Jews, 1968, p. 6.
[10] SJE, v.7, p. 378.
[11] Izvestiya, April 9, 1917, p. 4.
[12] SJE, v.7, p. 378-379.
[13] SJE, v.7, p. 378.
[14] Izvestiya, September 15, 1917, p. 2.
[15] SJE, v.6, p. 85; v.7, p. 379.
[16] SJE, v.7, p. 378.
[17] Birzhevye Vedomosti, April 12, 1917, p. 4.
[18] SJE, v.6, p. 463, 464.
[19] D. Pasmanik. Chego zhe my dobivaemsya? [What are we struggling for?] // Rossiya i evrei: Otechestvennoe objedinenie russkikh evreev za granitsei [Russia and Jews: Expatriate Society of Russian Jews in Exile (henceforth-RJ)]. Paris, YMCA-Press, 1978, p. 211 [The 1st Edition: Berlin, Osnova, 1924].
[20] SJE, v.7, p. 378.
[21] Ibid., p. 379.
[22] Ibid., p. 380-381.
[23] Ibid., p. 379.
[24] Rech, April 27, 1917, p. 3.
[25] SJE, v.7, p. 378.
[26] Russkaya Volya, April 25, 1917, p. 5.
[27] A. I. Denikin. Ocherki russkoi smuty. V1: Krushenie vlasti I armii, fevral-sentyabr 1917 [Russian Turmoil. Memoirs. V1: Collapse of Authority and Army]. Paris, 1922, p. 129-130.
[28] SJE, v.7, p. 379.
[29] Birzhevye Vedomosti, May 5, 1917, p. 2.
[30] SJE, v.4, p. 775.
[31] SJE, v.5, p. 475.
[32] Obshchee delo, October 14 and 16, 1917
[33] A. Sutton. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution. Translation from English, Moscow, 1998, p. 14-36.
[34] Rech, June 27, 1917, p. 3; June 28, p. 2-3.
[35] Rech, August 2, 1917, p. 3.
[36] Russkaya Evreiskaya Entsiklopediya [The Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (henceforth-RJE)]. 2nd edition, Moscow, 1994 – 1997. v. 1, p. 240, 427; v. 2, p. 124; v. 3, p. 29, 179, 280.
[37] RJE, v. 1, p. 473; v. 3, p. 41.
[38] Narodnoe soprotivlenie kommunismu v Rossii: Ural i Prikamye. Noyabr 1917 – yanvar 1919 [People’s Resistance to Communism: Urals and Prikamye. November 1917 – January 1919. Redactor M. Bernshtam. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1982, p. 356. Volume 3 of the series Issledovaniya Noveishei Russkoi istorii [Studies of Modern Russian History].
[39] RJE, v. 2, p. 85; v. 3, p. 106.
[40] RJE, v. 3, p. 224, 505; v. 1, p. 239.
[41] Rech, June 28, 1917, p. 2.
[42] Russkaya Volya, April 13, 1917, p. 3.
[43] Russkaya Volya, April 9, 1917, p. 3.
[44] Birzhevye vedomosti, May 7, 1917, p. 3.
[45] G. Aronson. Evreyskaya obshchestvennost v Rossii v 1917-1918 [The Jewish Public in Russia in 1917-1918]. // BRJ-2, p. 7.
[46] RJE, v. 7, p. 381.
[47] Ibid.
[48] I. O. Levin. Evrei v revolutsii [The Jews in the Revolution]. // RJ, p. 124.
[49] RJE, v. 7, p. 399.
[50] G. Aronson. Evreyskaya obshchestvennost v Rossii v 1917-1918 [The Jewish Public in Russia in 1917-1918] // BRJ-2, p. 10. RJE, v. 7, p. 381.
[51] RJE, v. 3, p. 162, 293.
[52] G. Aronson. Evreyskaya obshchestvennost v Rossii v 1917-1918 [The Jewish Public in Russia in 1917-1918] // BRJ-2, p. 7.
[53] Izvestiya, November 8, 1917, p. 5.
[54] D. S. Pasmanik. Russkaya revolutsia i evreistvo: (Bolshevism i iudaizm) [Russian Revolution and Jewry: Bolshevism and Judaism]. Paris, 1923, p. 153-154.
[55] Rech, July 28, 1917, p. 3.
[56] Ibid.; see also G. Lelevich. Oktyabr v stavke [The October in the general Headquarters]. Gomel, 1922, p. 13, 66-67.
[57] V. B. Stankevich. Vospominaniya, 1914-1919 [Memoirs, 1914-1919]. Berlin, publishing house of I. P. Ladyzhnikov, 1920, p. 86-87.
[58] A. I. Denikin. Ocherki russkoi smuty. V1: Krushenie vlasti I armii, fevral-sentyabr 1917 [Russian Turmoil. Memoirs. V1: Collapse of Authority and Army]. Paris, 1922, p. 216.
[59] Nik Sukhanov. Zapiski o revolutsii [Memoirs of the Revolution]. Berlin, Publishing House of Z. I. Grzhebin, 1923, v.5, p. 287.
[60] Russkaya Volya, May 7, 1917, p. 4.
[61] Ibid., p. 6.
[62] Zhurnaly zasedanii Vremennogo Pravitelstva [Minutes of the meetings of the Provisional Government]. Petrograd, 1917. V1: March-May; April 6 meeting (book 44, p. 5) and April 27 meeting (book 64, p. 4).
[63] Rech, June 28, 1917, p. 2.
[64] Rech, May 3, 1917, p. 6.
[65] Ivan Nazhivin. Zapiski o revolutsii [Notes about Revolution]. Vienna, 1921, p. 28.
[66] Rech, June 17, 1917, evening issue, p. 4.
[67] Rech, September 9, 1917, p. 3.
[68] Rech, August 8, 1917, p. 5.
[69] Russkaya Volya, June 17, 1917, evening issue, p. 4.
[70] V. Nabokov. Vremennoye pravitelstvo [The Provisional Government] // Archive of Russian Revolution, published by Gessen. Berlin: Slovo, 1922, v. 1, p. 80.
[71] V. I. Lenin. Sochineniya [Works]. In 45 volumes, 4th Edition (henceforth — Lenin, 4th edition). Moscow, Gospolitizdat, 1941-1967, v. 4, p. 311.
[72] Izvestiya, June 28, 1917, p. 5.
[73] Izvestiya, June 30, 1917, p. 10.
[74] Rech, October 20, 1917, p. 3.
[75] Izvestiya, October 26, 1917, p. 2.
[76] Delo Naroda, October 29, 1917, p. 1.
[77] Rech, July 11, 1917, p. 3.
[78] Rech, July 21, 1917, p. 4.
[79] Rech, September 16, 1917, p. 3.
[80] G. A. Landau. Revolutsionnye idei v evreiskoi obchshestvennosti [Revolutionary ideas in Jewish society] // RJ, p. 105, 106.
[81] D. S. Pasmanik. Russkaya revolutsia i evreistvo: (Bolshevism i iudaizm) [Russian Revolution and Jewry: Bolshevism and Judaism]. Paris, 1923, p. 245.
[82] Rech, July 26, 1917, p. 3.
[83] I. Eldad. Tak kto zhe nasledniki Zhabotinskogo? [So Who Are the Heirs of Jabotinsky?] // “22”: Obshchestvenno-politicheskiy i literaturniy zhurnal evreyskoy intelligentsii iz SSSR v Izraile [Social, Political and Literary Journal of the Jewish Intelligentsia from the USSR in Israel (henceforth – “22”)]. Tel-Aviv, 1980, (16), p. 120.
[84] D. S. Pasmanik. Russkaya revolutsia i evreistvo: (Bolshevism i iudaizm) [Russian Revolution and Jewry: Bolshevism and Judaism]. Paris, 1923, p. 179-181.
[85] Rech, August 16, 1917, p. 3.
[86] V. Boguslavsky. V sachshitu Kunyaeva [In Defense of Kunyaev] // “22″, 1980, (16), p. 169.
[87] Lenin, 4th edition, v. 30, p. 231.
[88] SJE, v.7, p. 381.
[89] Kh. M. Astrakhan. Bolsheviki i ikh politicheskie protivniki v 1917 godu [The Bolsheviks and Their Political Adversaries in 1917]. Leningrad, 1973, p. 407.
[90] Aron Abramovich. V reshayuchshey voine: Uchastie i rol evreev SSSR v voine protiv natsisma [In the Deciding War: Participation and Role of Jews in the USSR in the War Against Nazism] 2nd Edition, Tel Aviv, 1982, v. 1, p. 45, 46.
[91] L. Trotsky. Istoriya russkoi revolutsii. T. 2: Oktyabrskaya revolutsia [The History of Russian Revolution]. Berlin, Granit, 1933, v. 2: October Revolution, Part 2, p. 361.