Lenin's Bolshevik faction and the Jews in Russia

Type :

Case study

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.pdf

Published date :

08/11/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sociology

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Summary :

Introduction
The Jewish question
1. Lenin's Bolshevik faction
2. Lenin's approach to the Jewish question
3. His distrust of the perpetuation of Jewish 'national culture'
Post Tsarist Russia
1. Kerensky's reluctance to take Russia out of WWI
2. Hickey's concentration on the city of Smolensk
3. Fighting Zionism by prohibiting all activities of Zionist organizations
Trotsky and Stalin
1. Trotsky's choice not to join the Bund
2. Trotsky and The Society of the Godless
3. Stalin: The ferocious anti-Semite
Conclusions

Abstract

jews in the nineteenth and early twentieth century were assimilating into the broader Gentile culture of Europe, thanks to the immense pressures of modernization and, to a lesser extent, democratization. The jews of russia faced much of the same choice as the rest of the Russian population in the early part of the twentieth century. Tsarism appeared to be a break of both modernization and democratization, and the consequences of the lagged development were becoming increasingly clear economically and politically. In 1904, russia actually lost the Russo-Japanese War, the first ever instance of a European power losing a war to an "upstart" modern Asian nation. The jews of the Russian Empire were treated incredibly poorly. As russia expanded westward in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jewish populations were absorbed into the Russian Empire but not into the society. jews were banished to the immense ghetto of the Pale, and kept impoverished through a variety of legislation designed to limit Jewish property, wealth, and access to jobs. jews, like other Russians, were conscripted into the Army, but given the worst posts. Then there were the fierce programs against jews both in the cities and beyond, in the settlements.