Pogroms during the Russian Civil War

Pogroms of 1918–1920
Part of the Russian Civil War
Location of antisemitic pogroms in Ukraine (1918–1920)
LocationSouth Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine
DateJanuary 1918 (1918-01)-
November 1920 (1920-11)
Attack type
Pogrom, Genocide[1]
Deaths100,000–250,000
VictimsRussian and Ukrainian Jews
Perpetrators AFSR, White movement
     (17-50% of killings)[2][3]
Green armies
Red Army
     (2-9% of killings)[2][4]
Ukrainian People's Army
     (25-54% of killings)[2][5]
MotiveAntisemitism
Anti-communism

The pogroms during the Russian Civil War were a wave of mass murders of Jews, primarily in Ukraine, during the Russian Civil War. In the years 1918–1920, there were 1,500 pogroms in over 1,300 localities, in which up to 250,000 were murdered. All armed forces operating in Ukraine were involved in the killings, in particular the anti-Communist Ukrainian People's Army and Armed Forces of South Russia. It is estimated that more than a million people were affected by material losses, 50,000 to 300,000 children were orphaned, and half a million were driven out from or fled their homes. The Whitaker Report of the United Nations cited the massacre of 100,000 to 250,000 Jews in more than 2,000 pogroms which occurred during the White Terror in Russia as an act of genocide.[1]

  1. ^ a b "UN Whitaker Report on Genocide, 1985, paragraphs 14 to 24 pages 5 to 10» ". preventgenocideinternational. Archived from the original on 2019-06-13.
  2. ^ a b c Budnitskii 2012, p. 217; Midlarsky 2005, p. 45.
  3. ^ "YIVO | Russian Civil War". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  4. ^ "YIVO | Russian Civil War". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  5. ^ "YIVO | Russian Civil War". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2022-11-08.

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