Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why Were There No Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire?

Vladimir Levin

Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why Were There No Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire?

Department of Russian and Slavic Studies

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Several academic works have influenced research discourse more because of their impressive titles rather than their content, which is important in its own right.¹ One of them is John D. Klier’s study, “Why were Russian Jews not Kaisertreu?” Klier asked why Jews were not loyal subjects of the Russian Empire, like they were in the neighboring German and Austro-Hungarian-empires. To answer this question, Klier described how the tsarist regime equated Jews with its enemies, the Poles, and imposed anti-Jewish legislation starting in the 1860s and especially after 1881. Finally, he stated that “the judeophobe mindset of the imperial government created

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation
Subtitle of host publication	Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905-1915
Editors	Darius Staliūnas, Yoko Aoshima
Place of Publication	Budapest
Publisher	Central European University Press
Pages	357-382
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9789633863640
ISBN (Print)	9789633863657
State	Published - 2021

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Levin, V. (2021). Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why Were There No Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire? In D. Staliūnas, & Y. Aoshima (Eds.), The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905-1915 (pp. 357-382). Central European University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv2hvqghw.15

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Levin, V 2021, Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why Were There No Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire? in D Staliūnas & Y Aoshima (eds), The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905-1915. Central European University Press, Budapest, pp. 357-382. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv2hvqghw.15>

Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why Were There No Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire? / Levin, Vladimir.
The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905-1915. ed. / Darius Staliūnas; Yoko Aoshima. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021. p. 357-382.

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