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Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets
The most extreme legacies of tsarist antisemitism were pogroms and blood libels. These events were central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country with widespread anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. After the Soviets came to power, they claimed that they had eliminated both these phenomena. In her new revelatory book, Legacy of Blood: Jews,…