Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

• Main Author: Marin, Irina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Social history.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Religion and sociology.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; History of Modern Europe.; Social History.; Crime and Society.; Religion and Society.

This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the devastating Romanian peasant uprising in 1907 and traces the reverberations of the crisis...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: A Peasant Uprising on the Edge of a Triple Frontier
• 2. Rumour and Violence: the Making of an Uprising
• 3. Jews, Strangers and Foreigners
• 4. The Peasant Question
• 5. Eyes of the State
• 5. Paper Worlds
• 7. Diplomacy of the Uprising
• 8. Conclusions
• Index.