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This course evaluates the role of Jews in Russian radicalism beginning in the 1870s and '80s and focuses on their participation in the Revolutions of 1905 and especially 1917. The connections if any, between Judaism, Messianism, and radicalism will be evaluated, as will the socio-economic and cultural lives of Jews in Russia and how these inflected political attitudes radical and conservative. The course will trace the impact of the revolution on Jewish life into the mid, and late-1920s. The belief that Jews were once responsible for the revolution emerged as one of the cardinal principles of the Russian Right, eventually also the European Right and it would be embedded in the central ideas of Nazism and these developments, too, will be examined.