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On October 17, news on October Manifesto were recieved in Kiev. On October 18, revolutionary mob occupied Kiev University building and raised a red flag. On the same day, mobs led by bolshevik Alexander Schlichter occupied Kiev City Duma building, destroyed tsar's portraits and Russian flags, replacing them with red flags. This angered the crowds filling the strets.. When the unit of dragoons arrived to the Duma, shots were fired from the crowd and surrounding buildings. In the following shootout 7 were killed and 130 wounded.
Consequently, a mob was drawn into the streets. Among the perpetrators were monarchists, reactionaries, anti-Semites, and common criminals, proclaiming that "all Russia's troubles stemmed from the machinations of the Jews and socialists."
According to William C. Fuller ,
There ensued the horrific Kiev pogrom of October 18-20 (October 31-November 2), an orgy of looting, rapine, and murder chiefly directed against the factories, shops, homes, and persons of the Jews. This riot claimed the lives of between forty-seven and one hundred people and resulted in serious injury to at least three hundred more as well as the destruction of between 10 and 40 million rubles of property. This pogrom and the others that swept southern Russia at approximately the same time were so annihilative that, in the words of Simon Dubnow, taken together they amounted to 'Russia's St. Bartholomew's night'.
During the riots almost all shops on Khreshchatyk and in Podol district were looted.
In the opinion of “a Russian from Kiev”, published in Prince Meshchersky’s journal, Grazhdanin (The Citizen), as quoted by Vladimir Lenin,
The atmosphere in which we are living is suffocating; wherever you go there is whispering, plotting; everywhere there is blood lust, everywhere the stench of the informer, everywhere hatred, everywhere mutterings, everywhere groans....
In the pogrom, 47 were killed (one quarter of them Jews) and 205 wounded (one third of them Jews).
See also
Notes
- Materialy k istorii Russkoi kontr-revoliutsii. Pogromy po offitsial'nym dokumentam. St. Petersburg. 1908. Vol 1. part 2, p. 291
- Materialy, p. 292
- Materialy, p. 292
- William C. Fuller, The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia, 2006
- Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1995), p.191. (ibidem)
- S.N. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, trans. I. Friedlander, vol.2 (Philadelphia, 1920; repr., New York, 1972), p.128. (ibidem)
- Materialy, p. 293
- V.I. Lenin, On the Question of National Policy
- Materialy, p. 293
References
- Kievskii i odesskii pogromy v otchetakh senatorov Turau i Kuzminskago. St. Petersburg. 1907. Google books record (Report of Senator Turau on the Kiev pogrom.)
- Turau report was also published in: Materialy k istorii Russkoi kontr-revoliutsii. Pogromy po offitsial'nym dokumentam. St. Petersburg. 1908. Vol 1. part 2, pp 205-296.
- William C. Fuller, The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the the End of Imperial Russia, 2006
- Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1995). Chapter VIII, The promise shattered: The October pogrom. p. 189.
- S.N. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, trans. I. Friedlander, vol.2 (Philadelphia, 1920; repr., New York, 1972), p.128.
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