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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 1. Introduction: The beginnings of Russian Jewish radicalism, 1790-1868; 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, 1875-1879: 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, 1879-1887: 8. Motives of revolution; 9. Technicians of terrorism; 10. The pogroms of 1881-1882; 11. Epigones and pioneers; 12. Conclusion: Haskalah and the socialist promise of salvation; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
