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The Russian Empire was a multinational state, and the Jews were a significant minority group in the empire. The Tsarist government imposed many restrictions on the Jews, including geographical confinement. Jews had to live in the Pale of Settlement,…
Tags: diaspora, Jews in Russia, migration, Pale of Settlement, Russia
Is this map of famine across Russia in 1891 a telescope into the future of the 1892 cholera epidemic? Historians are not clear as to the role Russia's 1891 famine played in setting the stage for cholera. This map shows least affected famine areas as…







