LoginJews & Communism: The Jews under Bolshevism
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Prior to 1917, the world’s largest Jewish community lived in the Pale of Settlement in Tsarist Russia. The Pale existed from 1791 to 1917 and specified provinces and districts within which Russian Jews were required to reside. Under these conditions, Jewish access to academic life, the free professions and commercial opportunity was limited by law while daily life was lived under the constant threat of pogroms. In addition, their prospects of acquiring wealth in Tsarist Russia had always been small .This leads directly to the two issues in this book. Was the lot of Russian Jews improved as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution
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