Yurii Larin (Mikhail Lurie), and the Projects of Jewish National Territorial Unit in Crimea in the 1920s
Journal: Tractus Aevorum
Year: 2021

The article is devoted to the history of the so called "Crimea project" of a Jewish Soviet autonomy and the role of a former Russian revolutionary of Jewish origin Yurii Larin (Mikhail Lurie), who was the author of the "War Communism" economy and the first chairman of the Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union, in its development. Despite the fact that the given project was primarily authored by the journalist Abram Bragin, Larin changed it considerably and attempted t