The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement [electronic resource] : Community and Identity during the Russian Revolution and its Immediate Aftermath, 1905-07 /
Shtakser, I.author.
This book examines the emotional aspects of revolutionary experience during a critical turning point in both Russian and Jewish history - the 1905 revolution. Shtakser argues that radicalization involved an emotional transformation, which enabled many young revolutionaries to develop an activist attitude towards reality.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Dates, Place Names and Translations; Introduction; The issues; The main argument; The historiographic context; The sources; Part I: Becoming a Revolutionary; 1 The Road to a Revolutionary Identity; Background; What were they striving for?; What were they leaving? The community and the family; 2 The Radicalization of Students and Apprentices; Students finding their way to the revolution; The meaning of revolutionary politics for students; Apprentices finding their way to the revolution
The meaning of revolutionary politics for apprenticesPart II: Being a Revolutionary; 3 Identity Forged in Revolution; Jewish workers and the revolutionary movement; Working-class women and the revolutionary movement; Internal tensions within the revolutionary milieu; Jewish soldiers and the revolutionary movement; 4 The Emotional Experience of Revolutionary Activism; The creation of an emotional community; The delineation of the emotional community by educational levels; Family, Jewish community and education; 5 Self-Defence as an Emotional Experience; The challenge of the pogroms of 1905-07
The experience of pogroms and self-defenceJewish revolutionary working-class youth and the Jewish community; Being a revolutionary; Conclusion; Appendix: The Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the emotional aspects of revolutionary experience during a critical turning point in both Russian and Jewish history - the 1905 revolution. Shtakser argues that radicalization involved an emotional transformation, which enabled many young revolutionaries to develop an activist attitude towards reality.
Judaism.
Philosophy.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
World politics.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Judaism.
History of Philosophy.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Political History.
Social History.
Modern History.