And Hitler was 1/4 Jewish...what's your point? The fact that the leaders of the Revolution renounced their religious heritage does not negate the fact that it was a violent, killing revolution and those that did not embrace it were driven out, imprisoned or killed. Trotsky himself was imprisoned when he and Lenin parted ways for a time. He later embraced the idealism and became prominent in it. But for all the biographies, no mention is made of the fate of his own prominent Jewish family.
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At the end of the 19th century there was an estimated 5,500,000 Jews living in Russia. Under a law introduced by Alexander III, all Russian Jews were forced to live in what became known as the Pale of Jewish Settlement. Exceptions were made for rich business people, students and for certain professions. The Pale comprised the ten Polish and fifteen neighbouring Russian provinces, stretching from Riga to Odessa, from Silesia to Vilna and Kiev.
After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 there was a wave of pogroms in Russia against the Jewish community. This led to a large increase in Jews leaving Russia. Of these, more than 90 per cent settled in the United States.
A significant number of Jews played leading roles in the October Revolution. This included Leon Trotsky, Gregory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Dimitri Bogrov, Karl Radek, Yakov Sverdlov, Maxim Litvinov, Adolf Joffe, and Moisei Uritsky.
On 10th July, 1918, the Soviet government passed a law that abolished all discrimination between Jews and non-Jews. This resulted in a considerable amount of Jewish migration within the Soviet Union.
As I had stated, my greatgrandfather was a prominent business man( we believe he owned a sweater factory at the time he was killed)My grandfather and his family fled before this law in 1918 came into effect, but rather than return to Russia, they came to the US as the Turkish Holocaust was beginning