Russian treatment of jews under the communists Flashcards
How were Jewish people treated under the provisional government?
-overturned much of the anti-jewish legislation of the tsars.
How did Lenin treat the jewish people?
-Bolshevism rejected all religion including judaism
-jewish property (+ orthodox) seized + rabbis sacked
-BUT… contradiction… Lenin condemed anti-semitism.
What did lenin do in 1918 to jewish people?
-creation of Yevsektsiy
-bring all jews into revolutionary spirit + destroy jewish relgion and culture in the US.
How did Stalin treat the Jewish people?
-officially opposed anti-semitism
-1934- official position to oppose anti semitism ‘anywhere in the world’
What was anti-semitism replaced by under Stalin?
-anti- zionism/ routless cosmopolitian. (lack of allegiance to ussr- linked to jewish intellectuals)
-links to judaism and Trotsky’s heritage used against him.
Who ran the 1948 campagin against routless cosmopolitian?
-writers- about the artist community.
What did soviet newspapers start to print under Stalin?
-jewish people helping American imperialists.
What was the 1951-2 doctors plot?
-mainly jewish doctors in moscow accused of conspiring to kill soviet leaders
-more anti-zionist articles begin to appear in soviet newspapers.
How did Lenin behave toward muslims?
-condemed Tsarist repression
How did the communists behave toward to non-orthodox christians?
-Pobodenevsky-hoped to convert (like catholics in poland)
