Pogrom

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Red Terror: Bolshevik pogrom

A pogrom is a violent/destructive riot targeting a particular group.

Czech Hell: anti-German pogrom

History

George Floyd riots: anti-white pogrom

The word is of Russian origin and was originally used to refer to pogroms targeting Jews in the Russian Empire during the 19th century. Various aspects of the usual description of these riots and their causes and effects have been criticized. The descriptions have also been argued to be exaggerated and to have been used for various propaganda purposes. The most widely known pogrom may be the Kristallnacht, which has also been argued to have less politically correct aspects, as discussed in the Kristallnacht article. The term has also been applied to riots targeting other groups, such as Palestinians in Israel. In those cases the perpetrators are Jewish settlers.

See also

Further reading

  • Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Annals of Communism Series, Yale University Press, 2001
  • Don Heddesheimer: The First Holocaust—The Surprising Origin of the Six-Million Figure, 2015

External links

Russian empire and Eastern Europe

Black Death

Israel