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Book

In the midst of civilized Europe : the pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust

Call Number

  • 940.5311 V426 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021.

Physical Description

x, 466 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Summary

"From an award-winning historian, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. Includes illustrations and maps"--

Contents

  • War and revolution, March 1881--December 1918. The last years of the Russian empire ; The revolutions of 1917 ; The central rada of Ukraine ; From the Hetmanate to the directory
  • The Ukrainian People's Republic, December 1918--March 1919. The Ovruch pogrom ; The Zhytomyr pogrom ; The Proskuriv pogrom ; The second Zhytomyr pogrom
  • Power vacuum, March 1919--August 1919. The entente ; Warlords ; Months and days ; Poland and Ukraine on the world stage
  • The Triumph of Bolshevism, August 1919--March 1921. The volunteer army ; The Tetiiv pogrom ; The Polish-Soviet war
  • Aftermath, 1921--1941. Refugees ; The Schwarzbard trial ; The interwar in Ukraine ; The onset of the Holocaust.

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