Article: A "museum of bad taste"?: the Jewish Labour Bund and the Bolshevik position regarding the national question, 1903-14 (1).

From its foundation in 1897 until its suppression by the Soviet authorities towards the end of the Civil War (1918-21), the Jewish Labour Bund (2) played an important role in Russian politics not only as the party that organized Jewish workers and represented them within the social-democratic (in other words, Marxist) movement but also as a founding member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDRP). (3) By the 1905 Revolution the Bund had already become a mass movement, one of the largest workers' organizations in the Russian Empire, and it had a strong representation in the Soviets of 1905 and 1917. The Bund developed a national program that sought to reconcile ...

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