Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia [Hardcover]

A caregully researched study of 100 years of the Russian-Jewish revolutionary history.Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia is a comprehensive study of the participation of Jews in the Russian revolutionary movement from 1790 to 1890. It offers a new perspective on a Jewish community in the grip of modernity, and a new understanding of those who sought their saluation in revolution.Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia is a comprehensive study of the participation of Jews in the Russian revolutionary movement from 1790 to 1890. It offers a new perspective on a Jewish community in the grip of modernity, and a new understanding of those who sought their saluation in revolution.Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth Century Russia is a comprehensive study of the participation of Jewish people in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth century. Approaching the subject from various angles--cultural, sociological, psychological and political--it examines when and why Jews joined the Russian revolution, the importance of their contribution, and the extent to which their roles were determined by their Jewishness. The book offers a new perspective on a Jewish community in the grip of modernity, and a new understanding of those who sought their salvation in revolution.Preface. 1. Introduction: The beginnings of Russian Jewish radicalism, 17901868; Part I. The Chaikovskii Circles: Jewish Radicals in the Formative Stage of Revolutionary Populism: 2. Jewish student activists in St Petersburg; 3. Chaikhovskyist Jews in Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev; 4. The rebellious Jewish youth of Vilna; 5. Socialist Jews and Russian populism; Part II. The Land and Freedom Party: Jews and the Politicisation of Revolutionary Populism, 18751879: 6. Jewish 'generals of revolution'; 7. The heresy of political terrorism; Part III. The Party of the People's Will: Jewish Terrorists of Socialist Conviction, 18791887: 8. Motives of revolution; 9. Technicians of terrorism; 10.lã3