--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> To be certain, the sexier ones - showing the
> "trials" and public humiliation
> of Shanghai intellectuals - could not be found in
> the box. Perhaps these
> images exist only in my memory. Taking pictures of
> such scenes was quite
> risky. I did not speak the language but I could
> understand quite well what
> it was about from the body language - the
> read-cheeked guys in military
> uniforms publicly humiliating eggheads who strayed
> from the truth spelled
> out in 200 or so pages of the "Red Book."
This evening, I finished a fascinating history of the Black Hundreds by the Russian scholar S. Stepanov. As it turns out, the October 1905 pogroms were not just "anti-semitic," as usually described. In fact, while Jews were a major (the main) target, they were far from the only one. One huge target of the pogromshiki was students (and seminarians). The entire faculty and student body of Kharkov University tried to flee the city, only to be met by pogromshiki at the train station. (Many government buildings were also attacked.)
The book gives the following figures on people killed/wounded in the 1905 pogroms according to nationality (based in reports from 1905):
Jews: 711/1207 Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians: 428/1246 Armenians: 47/51 Georgians: 8/15 Ajerbaijanis: 5/7 Poles: 4/6 Latvians: 2/1 Germans: 1/7 Greeks: 1/0 Karaite Jews: 1/0 Moldovans: 0/7 Lithuanians: 0/2 Caucasian peoples: 10/53 Undetermined nationalities: 404/932
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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