Not surprisingly, the virulent anti-Semitism of all classes in the pre-1917 Russian Empire has left remnants of anti-Semitic attitudes, especially among older, less educated and more rural populations, even after two generations of Soviet education. To the extent that such attitudes linger on, in spite of official Party policies designed to eradicate them, must be distinguished from the economic and political policies and educational campaigns of the Party.

Evidence concerning whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union experienced a significant amount of interpersonal anti-Semitism is mixed. Studies of recent Soviet emigree’s anti-Semitic experiences casts considerable doubt on the theory that interpersonal anti-Semitism is a major factor in the country. A 1973 survey of 2,527 emigrants from the USSR in Israel found that 25% of those who had been nationalist activists in the USSR claimed never personally to have experienced an incident of anti-Semitism.

In another survey of emigrants bound for Israel only 39% claimed that anti-Semitism in the USSR was a primary reason for their emigration. It is of interest to note that many more emigrants, bound for the U.S. rather than for Israel, claimed both to have experienced anti-Semitism and that such experiences were the primary reason for their emigration.

Anti-Soviet pro-Jewish emigrant observers, such as Gitelman, draw the reasonable conclusion that a language of motives focusing on anti-Semitism has been formulated that maximizes the probability of being accepted into the U.S., that is, affirms the claim to legitimate refugee status. Asserting the desire to make more money or to advance one’s career as the reason for emigration to the U.S. would not be effective.⁸⁶

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The pogroms carried out by the Soviet army occupy a special place. Although the total number of 106 pogroms and excesses is an impressive one, the Soviet army can by no means be classified with the other pogrom-making groups. Quite the contrary, the Soviet army took all means at its disposal to protect the Jews from pogroms.

Even in the places where such pogroms occurred the Jewish inhabitants in these places remained, nevertheless, sympathetic to the Soviet army, knowing that these pogroms were carried out against the will of the authorities and that the guilty ones were being severely punished.

The pogroms made by Soviet soldiers were exceptions and accidental. They were made, in the main, by detachments of other armies that had gone over to the side of the Soviets. These troops, under the stress of civil war, broke the military discipline and started making pogroms in the same way they had carried on under anti-Soviet leadership.

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I am highly skeptical of claims that antisemitism was ever a Soviet policy, but unfortunately I am sure that there were more than a handful of incidents between individuals, and that hardly makes them any less tragic than state- or institution-sanctioned discrimination.

Of course, for most antisocialists it isn’t enough if scores of Soviet troops went rogue and committed antisemitic violence. The number needs to be absurdly high and it must all be framed as a direct consequence of implementing the Communist Manifesto into practice (regardless of whether or not that is demonstrable).