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With compelling evidence and impeccable scholarship, Mogilner interrogates the meaning of race as constructed in the late Russian Empire, showing, in particular, how it intersected with Jewish understandings of nationalism and Zionism. Treading new ground, this important book will be of interest to a wide array of scholars. --Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Marina Mogilner's extraordinary account of the legacy of one of the most odious figures in the history of Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky, illustrates how his revisionist Zionism became a dominant strain long after his death. She situates Jabotinsky within the original Russian context out of which he emerged: the modernizing, nationalizing late Russian empire in which ideas of race were central to the sense of nationness developing among Russians and Jews, not to mention other peoples. This work is as original and significant as this superb scholar's earlier books. Mogilner's work is of the highest quality and has brought the conceptions of race in Russia to mainstream attention. Her works deserve the time that one has to take to digest them, both in their density, seriousness, and richness. --Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, The University of Michigan The idiosyncratic Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism, was one of the most influential political figures of his day. In this remarkable new book, the distinguished historian Marina Mogilner shows how the young Jabotinsky actively engaged in many of the same foundational questions that consumed so many other thinkers of racial thought at the turn of the twentieth century. According to Mogilner's insightful analysis, Jabotinsky's racialized Zionism emerges as much a distinct product of a turbulent imperial political era as an expression of Jewish nationalist cause. --Eugene M. Avrutin, author of Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin

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Marina Mogilner holds the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is cofounder and coeditor of the international journal Ab Imperio and author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia and A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness.

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