The Kiev pogrom of October 18-October 20 (October 31-November 2, 1905, N.S.) came as a result of the collapse of the city hall meeting of October 18, 1905 in

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in the

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. Consequently, a mob was drawn into the streets. Among the perpetrators were

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, reactionaries, anti-Semites, and common

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, proclaiming that "all Russia's troubles stemmed from the machinations of the

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and

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." The pogrom resulted in a massacre of approximately 100 Jews.

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According to William C. Fuller, The events building up to the Kiev pogrom included a country-wide wave of Jewish pogroms in a number of towns in southern Russian Empire. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, "anti-Jewish riots (''

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y'') broke out in

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(April 27, 28),

(May 8–11),

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(May 9),

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(May 9), Wasilkov (May 10),

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(May 10), and during the following six months, in one hundred and sixty other places of southern Russia...It was clear that the riots were premeditated. To give but one example—a week before the pogrom of Kiev broke out, Von Hubbenet, chief of police of Kiev, warned some of his Jewish friends of the coming riots." In the opinion of "a Russian from Kiev", published in Prince

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's journal, ''Grazhdanin'' (The Citizen), as quoted by

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, Historian Shlomo Lambroza, not trusting the police sources, used data from opposition materials and counted 3,103 murdered Jews for the entire country of Russia during the 1905-1906 wave of pogroms.John Klier, Shlomo Lambroza, Pogroms: Anti-Jewish violence in modern Russian history (Cambridge, 1992): 228, 231.

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*William C. Fuller, The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia, 2006

*Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1995), p. 191. *S.N. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, trans. I. Friedlander, vol.2 (Philadelphia, 1920; repr., New York, 1972), p. 128. *Herman Rosenthal Jewish Encyclopedia, volume I page 347 column 1 article "Alexander III., Alexandrovic

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