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Solzhenitsyn and the 'Russian Question', Part 12

Two Centuries Together - The Pogroms, part two.

Essay first published in Church and State, No.139, Jan-Mar, 2020. 
The full text can be downloaded in Word format 
here.

American cartoon, 1882, by Thomas Nast

The story so far - Jews and capitalism
Iakov Brafman and the Russian view of Jewish history
The pogroms
Simon Dubnow and the Jewish view of Jewish history
Government policy after the pogroms
Sympathy for the perpetrators