The first academic study to address the mass rape of Jewish women during Ukraine's 1917 to 1921 pogroms as a deliberate and strategic dimension of the violence rather than an incidental feature of it, built from survivor narratives largely unread for nearly a century. Argues the pogroms should be understood alongside a wider twentieth century pattern of gendered violence deployed as a tool of genocide.
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Reliability TierA peer-reviewed monograph in the Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy series from an academic press, built from in-depth study of survivor testimony and read against established theories of genocidal sexual violence; the first work to treat this dimension of the pogroms systematically. Sources
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