Prophecy and Politics. Socialism, Nationalism, and Russian Jewry 1862-1917

A classic study of eminent Israeli historian Jonathan Frankel is dedicated to one of the central problems in social and political life of Jews in Russia at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. - Synthesis of socialist ideology and the Jewish national movement. For the first time a Russian reader can not only get acquainted with the specific problems faced by Russian-Jewish intellectuals, and options for their solution defined, in fact, the course of world Jewish history in XX century. But look at the history of Russia from the point of view not previously seen in Russian historiography.