Abstract
This article examines the activity and propaganda of the leaders of independent military bands (in Ukrainian: otamans) during the risings of spring and summer 1919 against the Bolsheviks in the Ukraine. It uses the otamans as a case study to question recent interpretations of violence informed by the German-language ‘new sociology of violence’, according to which ideas are assumed to have little relevance to the exercise of violence. The article pays particular attention to how the stated goal of ‘soviets without Jews' led to the pogroms committed by the otamans as a means of mobilising peasant support.
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