The Pogroms of the Russian Civil War and the Making of Soviet Jewry

By examining the anti-Jewish violence unleashed during the Russian Civil War, from 1918-1921, this talk will study the impact of the pogroms on the relationship between the Jews and the Soviet state, and on the forging of a new "royal aliance." The talk will also discuss the place that these pogroms occupied in the Soviet politics of memory, exploring how the state commemorated the victims and prosecuted the perpetrators.