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:I think the inclusion of anti-semitism's history in Russia is crucial.  It's not simply that the czar and co. were anti-semitic.  It's that hatred towards Jews was as deeply ingrained in Russian history as white supremacy is in America.  Read practically any Jewish newspaper from around the world in 1917-1918 and you'll find celebrations of the Soviet Government's campaign against pogroms.  The fact that Jews like Trotsky, Zionviev, and Kamenev were in high government was a further indication of the magnitude of the change Lenin's government made when it came to anti-semitism.

:I think the inclusion of anti-semitism's history in Russia is crucial.  It's not simply that the czar and co. were anti-semitic.  It's that hatred towards Jews was as deeply ingrained in Russian history as white supremacy is in America.  Read practically any Jewish newspaper from around the world in 1917-1918 and you'll find celebrations of the Soviet Government's campaign against pogroms.  The fact that Jews like Trotsky, Zionviev, and Kamenev were in high government was a further indication of the magnitude of the change Lenin's government made when it came to anti-semitism.

:Also, the timeframe on Kollontai is incorrect.  She's elected Commissar for Public Health at the second all Russian congress of soviets in 1917, and resigns in 1922, five years later.

:Also, the timeframe on Kollontai is incorrect.  She's elected Commissar for Public Health at the second all Russian congress of soviets in 1917, resigns from the commissariat in 1918, but is still a key figure in the government until 1922.