The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power, by Andrew Sloin

Antisemitism, racism, revolution

“…Similarly, there are elements in the political culture of revolutionary Russia that had relatively autonomous qualities that cannot be collapsed into the "structural logics of the commodity form". Despite these reservations, Sloin' s own work (Sloin 2017) shows, compellingly and brilliantly, how a Postonian analysis that centres political economy can be harnessed for the study of east European Jewish history in this period. Elsewhere in his commentary, Sloin asks whether the atrocities discussed in Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution "prefigured, coincided with, and mirrored the logics of fascism, across post-WWI Europe, which announced its emergence with the localized slaughter of Jews as conflations of both Bolshevism and capitalism?".…”