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The Kiev pogrom of October 18-October 20 (October 31-November 2, 1905, N.S.) was a series of anti-Jewish riots in Kiev during the Russian Revolution pf 1905.

After the publication October 17 Manifesto demonstrations and riots broke out across the country. In Kiev on October 18, building of Kiev City Duma was occupied by the mob led by bolshevik Alexander Schlichter. Consequently, a mob was drawn into the streets. Among the perpetrators were monarchists, reactionaries, anti-Semites, and common criminals, proclaiming that "all Russia's troubles stemmed from the machinations of the Jews and socialists."

According to William C. Fuller ,

There ensued the horrific Kiev pogrom of October 18-20 (October 31-November 2), an orgy of looting, rapine, and murder chiefly directed against the factories, shops, homes, and persons of the Jews. This riot claimed the lives of between forty-seven and one hundred people and resulted in serious injury to at least three hundred more as well as the destruction of between 10 and 40 million rubles of property. This pogrom and the others that swept southern Russia at approximately the same time were so annihilative that, in the words of Simon Dubnow, taken together they amounted to 'Russia's St. Bartholomew's night'.

The events building up to the Kiev pogrom included a country-wide wave of Jewish pogroms in a number of Russian towns. It was clear that the riots were premeditated. To give but one example—a week before the pogrom of Kiev broke out, Von Hubbenet, chief of police of Kiev, warned some of his Jewish friends of the coming riots."

In the opinion of “a Russian from Kiev”, published in Prince Meshchersky’s journal, Grazhdanin (The Citizen), as quoted by Vladimir Lenin,

The atmosphere in which we are living is suffocating; wherever you go there is whispering, plotting; everywhere there is blood lust, everywhere the stench of the informer, everywhere hatred, everywhere mutterings, everywhere groans....

According to official police figures, during the Kiev pogrom, 47 were killed (one quarter of them Jews) and 205 wounded (one third of them Jews).

See also

Notes

  1. William C. Fuller, The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia, 2006
  2. Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1995), p.191. (ibidem)
  3. S.N. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, trans. I. Friedlander, vol.2 (Philadelphia, 1920; repr., New York, 1972), p.128. (ibidem)
  4. V.I. Lenin, On the Question of National Policy

References

  • Kievskii i Odesskii pogromy v otchetah senatorov Turau i Kuzminskogo. St. Petersburg. 1907.
  • Early Twentieth Century Timelines: Russia in Chaos
  • William C. Fuller, The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the the End of Imperial Russia, 2006
  • Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1995), p.191.
  • S.N. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, trans. I. Friedlander, vol.2 (Philadelphia, 1920; repr., New York, 1972), p.128.

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