- Title
- Bolshevism, Balfour and Zionism: A tale of two centenaries
- Creator
- Markwick, Roger D.
- Relation
- MR online Vol. -, Issue 29 January 2018
- Relation
- https://mronline.org/2018/01/29/bolshevism-balfour-and-zionism-a-tale-of-two-centenaries/
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Foundation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- November 2017 marked the centenary of two of the most decisive events in the twentieth century: the Bolshevik-led revolution in Russia and the Balfour Declaration in Britain. The Russian Revolution was executed by the Bolsheviks in the name of peace and international socialism; the Balfour Declaration was a British government commitment to support a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This was not simply a remarkable coincidence. At loggerheads were two mutually exclusive political objectives: the one to promote worldwide, anti-imperialist revolution; the other, to further British imperial interests in the Middle East.
- Subject
- Russian Revolution; Bolsheviks; Palestine; decisive events
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451150
- Identifier
- uon:44104
- Identifier
- ISSN:0027-0520
- Language
- eng
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