Russkaia armiia i evrei.1914-1917 - Gol'din S.

The israeli historian's monograph analyzes the causes, contents and consequences of the Russian army's attitude towards Jews in 1914-1917. With the beginning of the war, commanders of various ranks were sure of the existence of a "problem" of Jewish loyalty to Russian weapons in the theater of war and were going to achieve it with fear of mass evictions and executions of hostages. As part of the "fight" against the Jews, the army carried out mass deportations of the Jewish population, hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes, were victims of pogroms, looting and bullying. Ineffective fighting with a powerful external enemy and inventing for himself and "war" with the enemy internal, in the face of Jews - The Russian military elites themselves prepared the country for revolution and civil war.