1929 Soviet poster by Valentina Kulagina commemorating the 1905 revolution. The slogan at the bottom reads "Road to October," referring to the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power. Poster collection, Hoover Institution Archives

In conjunction with the centenary of the Russian revolution of 1905, an international conference, "Jews and Russian Revolutions," is being held at Stanford during November 6-7, 2005. Jointly sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Hoover Institution (all located at Stanford University), and the International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies in Moscow, the conference brings together a dozen scholars to consider the involvement of Jews in the turbulent events of 1905-1917 and the effects of that turmoil on Jewish culture and politics in Russia and beyond.

This display, developed by David Jacobs of the Hoover Institution Archives in collaboration with Professors Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford University, illustrates some of the conference's themes.

Panel 1: Jews and Russian Revolutions (PDF download 97 KB)

Panel 2: A Coat of Many Colors (PDF download 85 KB)

Panel 3: From Populism to the Bund (PDF download 83 KB)

Panel 4: Pogroms and Self-Defense (PDF download 107 KB)

Panel 5: 1917: Radical Hopes and Disillusionment (PDF download 82 KB)

Panel 6: After the Revolution (PDF download 131 KB)