Original sentence: An estimated 70,000 to 250,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities throughout the former Russian Empire during the civil war.Denikin's forces were responsible for many pogroms against the Jewish population of the Ukraine and Russia.In his book 200 Years Together, Alexander Solzhenitsyn provides the following numbers from Nahum Gergel's 1951 study of the pogroms in the Ukraine: out of estimated 887 mass pogroms, 17% were committed by the White Army, mostly while under Denikin's command
Edited sentence: According to Nahum Gergel's 1951 study of the pogroms in Ukraine (quoted by Solzhenitsin in his book "Two Hundred Years Together"), out of an estimated 887 pogroms, only 17% were committed by the White Army, mostly while under Denikin's command.As a leader of the Whites, Denikin is often criticized for failing to establish adequate discipline and control over his far flung troops; Denikin himself saw this as one of his greatest mistakes.Despite Denikin's strict orders, various White forces (cossacks in particular) were most likely responsible for some pogroms against the Jewish population of Ukraine and Russia.However, given the chaotic circumstances of the Russian Civil War it is uncertain exactly how much control he could reasonably have been expected to achieve with the means at his disposal.However, it should be noted that forces nominally under Denikin's command were frequently effectively not under his control, and it is those forces most associated with the pogroms.Pogroms were fueled in part by Jewish support of the bolsheviks and their participation in the Red administration and repressive organizations (Cheka).The Whites under Denikin have a disputed record with regard to Russia's Jews.Yet subsequent sources attribute approximately 77% of Jewish fatalities to the White Army