Jeronim Perović
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190889890
- eISBN:
- 9780190942991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190889890.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The focus of this chapter is on the complex developments in the North Caucasus during the time of Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921). If the period of the February and October revolutions was ...
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The focus of this chapter is on the complex developments in the North Caucasus during the time of Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921). If the period of the February and October revolutions was characterized by attempts of the North Caucasian political and religious elite to form a single state entity, the outbreak of civil war brought societal and ethnic cleavages to the fore, undermining common state-building efforts. Caucasians fought on all sides of the front, but most of the North Caucasian Muslims allied themselves with the forces of the Bolsheviks, with whom they shared a common cause: to prevent the re-establishment of the old regime. While the “White” troops under former tsarist General Anton Denikin fought for a Russia “one and united,” the Bolsheviks promised the non-Russian peoples land and freedom. Shortly after the triumph of the Bolsheviks, cracks began to appear in these alliances. By mid-1920, the mountainous parts of Chechnia and Dagestan had been set aflame in a large-scale anti-Bolshevik uprising led Imam Gotsinskii. Only in late 1921 did the Bolsheviks, with assistance from regular units of the Red Army, manage to crush this rebellion and establish military superiority.Less
The focus of this chapter is on the complex developments in the North Caucasus during the time of Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921). If the period of the February and October revolutions was characterized by attempts of the North Caucasian political and religious elite to form a single state entity, the outbreak of civil war brought societal and ethnic cleavages to the fore, undermining common state-building efforts. Caucasians fought on all sides of the front, but most of the North Caucasian Muslims allied themselves with the forces of the Bolsheviks, with whom they shared a common cause: to prevent the re-establishment of the old regime. While the “White” troops under former tsarist General Anton Denikin fought for a Russia “one and united,” the Bolsheviks promised the non-Russian peoples land and freedom. Shortly after the triumph of the Bolsheviks, cracks began to appear in these alliances. By mid-1920, the mountainous parts of Chechnia and Dagestan had been set aflame in a large-scale anti-Bolshevik uprising led Imam Gotsinskii. Only in late 1921 did the Bolsheviks, with assistance from regular units of the Red Army, manage to crush this rebellion and establish military superiority.
Elissa Bemporad
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190466459
- eISBN:
- 9780190466480
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190466459.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The conclusion chronicles the present-day landscape of the memory and the oblivion of the different chapters in the history of ritual murder and pogroms discussed in this book. The official inquiry ...
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The conclusion chronicles the present-day landscape of the memory and the oblivion of the different chapters in the history of ritual murder and pogroms discussed in this book. The official inquiry by the Russian Federation into the real nature of the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, alongside some contemporary versions of the ritual murder myth, are a reminder of how deep-seated the memories of dangerous imagined Jewish rituals still is. Similarly, the memory and oblivion of anti-Jewish violence in contemporary Russia and Ukraine sheds light on the legacy of the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. The recollection of a Jewish alliance with communism comes across the monuments and the memory of “national heroes” like Symon Petliura and Anton Denikin, and of “anti-heroes” like Leon Trotsky. Finally, the memory of the pogroms is still exploited today by Russia, and used as a means to exert social and political control in the brutal war waged against Ukraine.Less
The conclusion chronicles the present-day landscape of the memory and the oblivion of the different chapters in the history of ritual murder and pogroms discussed in this book. The official inquiry by the Russian Federation into the real nature of the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, alongside some contemporary versions of the ritual murder myth, are a reminder of how deep-seated the memories of dangerous imagined Jewish rituals still is. Similarly, the memory and oblivion of anti-Jewish violence in contemporary Russia and Ukraine sheds light on the legacy of the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. The recollection of a Jewish alliance with communism comes across the monuments and the memory of “national heroes” like Symon Petliura and Anton Denikin, and of “anti-heroes” like Leon Trotsky. Finally, the memory of the pogroms is still exploited today by Russia, and used as a means to exert social and political control in the brutal war waged against Ukraine.
