On the Black Hundreds participation in Anti-Jewish pogroms in October 1905

The liberal and Soviet historiography accusations of autocracy,the conservative part of the Russian Orthodox church's priesthood and the Black Hundreds organizations in inspiration of October1905 Anti-Jewish pogroms was not confirmed by the historical sources of the Russian federal and local archives, as the organizationwas established later. After the legalization of the extreme right unions the pogrom movement was gone on the territory of the RussianEmpire. New pogroms occurred during the Civil War of 1918-1920. Anti-Jewish pogroms in October 1905 were determined by thereaction of traditionalist groups of population on desecration of the State symbols and religious sacred objects by the opposition representativesand Jews after the publication of the Tsar's Manifesto of October 17, 1905. The cause for the mass outrage was identical everywherein Russia: firing at religious processions from Jewish houses, which took place in Yaroslavl, Tambov, Tver and so on. Criminalsand hooligans also provoked traditionalists to daylight robberies of Jewish belongings. After the First Russian Revolution theBlack-Hundreds organizations (such as the Union of Russian people, the Russian monarchical party, the Union of Michael Archangeland others) condemned acts of terrorism grounding it with religious obstacles, law-abiding nature of their organizations, expedience ofthe pogroms to opponents. The Black Hundreds ideologists blamed cosmopolitan bureaucracy in Anti-Jewish pogroms for their incapacityto build up protective mechanisms to prevent mass violence and corruption of the executive power. Exterritoriality and universalityof the pogroms gave them grounds to insist that economic (domination in many spheres of national economy and exploitation of aboriginalpopulation) and political (revolutionary) activities resulted in destruction of traditional forms of life and spontaneous violence.In the final and complete shape the picture of the Anti-Jewish pogroms in October 1905 can be composed in case of a thorough study ofeach pogrom with the following summarizing of the results. Historians ought to pay attention to the Zionist factor. Available data makeit clear that Zionists provoked Jewish population against Russian traditionalists and traditionalists against Jews for the purpose of nationalunification.

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