Brendan McGeever is Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London. His work examines the relationship between antisemitism and racism, historically up to the present day. He is based at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches in the Department of Psychosocial Studies. He is a 2019 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, with his work featuring across television and radio.

'With a remarkable mastery of the historiography and a deep investigation of primary sources, McGeever unveils the conflation between war and revolution, class and ethnos in the early Soviet Union. Displaying a style both analytical and narrative, he shifts elegantly from macro- to micro-history and rebuilds the complexity of the relationship between Bolshevism and the 'Jewish question'. This is an outstanding work.' Enzo Traverso, Cornell University, New York

• Acknowledgments; A note on translation; Terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 1917: antisemitism in the moment of revolution; 2. 'Red pogroms': Spring 1918; 3. The Soviet response to antisemitism, 1918; 4. Antisemitism and revolutionary politics: the Red Army in Ukraine, 1919; 5. The Soviet response to antisemitism in Ukraine, February–May 1919; 6. Conclusions: anti-racist praxis in the Russian Revolution; 7. Reinscribing antisemitism? The Bolshevik approach to the 'Jewish question'; Epilogue: in the shadow of pogroms; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Brendan McGeever is Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London. His work examines the relationship between antisemitism and racism, historically up to the present day. He is based at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches in the Department of Psychosocial Studies. He is a 2019 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, with his work featuring across television and radio.

'With a remarkable mastery of the historiography and a deep investigation of primary sources, McGeever unveils the conflation between war and revolution, class and ethnos in the early Soviet Union. Displaying a style both analytical and narrative, he shifts elegantly from macro- to micro-history and rebuilds the complexity of the relationship between Bolshevism and the 'Jewish question'. This is an outstanding work.' Enzo Traverso, Cornell University, New York

• Acknowledgments; A note on translation; Terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 1917: antisemitism in the moment of revolution; 2. 'Red pogroms': Spring 1918; 3. The Soviet response to antisemitism, 1918; 4. Antisemitism and revolutionary politics: the Red Army in Ukraine, 1919; 5. The Soviet response to antisemitism in Ukraine, February–May 1919; 6. Conclusions: anti-racist praxis in the Russian Revolution; 7. Reinscribing antisemitism? The Bolshevik approach to the 'Jewish question'; Epilogue: in the shadow of pogroms; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Brendan McGeever is Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London. His work examines the relationship between antisemitism and racism, historically up to the present day. He is based at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches in the Department of Psychosocial Studies. He is a 2019 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, with his work featuring across television and radio.

'With a remarkable mastery of the historiography and a deep investigation of primary sources, McGeever unveils the conflation between war and revolution, class and ethnos in the early Soviet Union. Displaying a style both analytical and narrative, he shifts elegantly from macro- to micro-history and rebuilds the complexity of the relationship between Bolshevism and the 'Jewish question'. This is an outstanding work.' Enzo Traverso, Cornell University, New York

• Acknowledgments; A note on translation; Terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 1917: antisemitism in the moment of revolution; 2. 'Red pogroms': Spring 1918; 3. The Soviet response to antisemitism, 1918; 4. Antisemitism and revolutionary politics: the Red Army in Ukraine, 1919; 5. The Soviet response to antisemitism in Ukraine, February–May 1919; 6. Conclusions: anti-racist praxis in the Russian Revolution; 7. Reinscribing antisemitism? The Bolshevik approach to the 'Jewish question'; Epilogue: in the shadow of pogroms; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.