Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was national as well as political in character. The official policy of repressing national minorities had aroused discontent; the force of nationalism had made itself felt among the submerged nationalities in Russia, promoting both the desire to throw off legal disabilities and the hope of gaining national rights within the Russian Empire. The Jews, subject to the most onerous restrictions, had begun to join nationalistic organizations in the hope that they could influence in some measure their destiny.
1 An exception was the Polish Socialist Party which sought not national rights but national independence.
2 Vinaver (born 1863, died an emigré in Paris, 1926) exercised a commanding influence. One of the founders and leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and one of the most eminent jurists in the empire, he commanded great respect. Though neither an adherent of Zionism nor of any form of Jewish nationalism, he was intensely concerned with Jewish problems.
3 Khronika evrejskoj žizni, April 10, 1905, col. 21; see also Miljukov, P. N. et al., M. M. Vinaver i russkaja običežtvennost načala xx veka (Paris, 1937), pp. 165–86.Google Scholar
4 Sliozberg, G. B., Dela minuvšikh dnei (Paris, 1934), III, 191–92.Google Scholar
5 Voskhod, Feb. 16, 1906, col. 28; Feb. 23, 1906, cols. 23–27; March 2, 1906, cols. 30–38; Folks-tzeitung, Feb. 21, 1906, p. 2; Feb. 23, 1906, p. 3.
6 Der bund in der revolutzie fun 1905–1906 (Warsaw, 1930), p. 36.Google Scholar
7 Khronika evrejskoj šizni, May 10, 1906, col. 29; Naier veg, April 28, 1906, col. 38.
8 Yudishe folk, May 24, 1906, pp. 11–13; Meisl, Josef, Die Juden im Zartum Polen (Bonn, 1916)Google Scholar, passim.
9 Evrejskij Golos, March 13, 1906, col. 330.
10 Voskhod, March 30, 1906, col. 23.
11 Ibid., col. 21.
12 Telegraf, March 15, 1906, p. 3.
13 Voskhod, March 30, 1906, col. 22.
14 Evrejskij Gobs, March 19, 1906, col. 367.
15 Yudishe Folk, May 15, 1906, p. 5.
l6 Telegraf, March 12, 1906, p. 3, March 27, 1906, p. 1.
17 Ibid, April 9, 1906, p. 1.
18 Ibid., April 14, 1906, p. 2.
19 Folks-tzeitung, April 23, 1906, p. 1.
20 Voskhod, March 30, 1906, col. 22.
21 Telegraf, April 14, 1906, p. 1.
22 Ibid., April 9, 1906, p. 1.
23 Sliozberg, op. cit., p. 194.
24 For further data on the twelve deputies see Bojovič, M., Členy gosudarstvennoj dumy (Moscow, 1906)Google Scholar, the biographical articles in Evrejskaja Enciklopedija, Jüdisches Lexikon, Encyclopaedia Judaica, and Telegraf for April 25 and May 26, 1906.
25 Telegraf, April 16, 17, 19, 1906.
26 April 13, 1906.
27 Folks-tzeitung, April 13, 1906, p. 1.