Russian Pogroms on a more personal note At the beginning of Nicholas II's reign in 1894, Russia was faced with revolution. People were beginning to fight for political reformations, and their right to freedom of speech, but Nicholas II was attempting to make it clear that he was going to be just as strict in his guard of the autocracy as his father, Alexander III, was before him. The Russian government had just failed to gain …
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…exact date, I believe that Rosie and the rest of the family emigrated to the United States in 1910, just a few years after the pogroms and a few before WWI. Everyone survived the pogroms in my family, but thousands of other Russian Jews were slaughtered. The government funded pogroms were meant to stem the frustrations and aggression of the Russian people away from revolution, but Russia was thrown into the depths of revolution in 1917 anyhow.