Speakers: Brendam McGeever,Trudy Gold

When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination, but these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept the former Pale of Settlement. Brendan McGeever offers the first book-length analysis in The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution, revealing the campaign to have been led not, as often assumed, by party leadership but by a loosely connected group of radicals who mobilised around a Jewish political subjectivity. He will be in conversation with historian and educator Trudy Gold.