--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: Venting of popular frustrations, which were very intense. My grandma who remembered pre-revolutionary times told me that peasant violence was directed at about everyone they could put their hands on. She told me a story about someone of an upper class origin who was separated from a hunting party and run into an angry peasant mob - the police later could not even recognize his body.
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Yes, actually although the pogroms are remembered as being "anti-Jewish," they were really against a larger group of hated targets -- university students (including seminary students), people with education in general, people with money. Stepanov gives a breakdown of victims of the 1905 pogroms by nationality in his book on the Black Hundreds -- Jews came to about 50% of the total.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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