The Shield: Russia and the Jewish Question - Russian Intellectuals on Anti-Semitism

by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub

The original Shield was published in 1916 by the Russian Society for the Study of Jewish Life under the joint editorship of three eminent writers, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Fyodor Sologub. In the words of William English Walling, "this is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul." Nowadays The Shield is as timely as ever. As Pavel Milyukov, the founder of the Constitutional Democratic Party, says, anti-Semitism of the new type "is the product of the constitutional epoch. It is a response to the need for new means of influencing the masses."

148 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 1916

About the author

Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.

This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.

Reviews

[Benjamin Stahl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Compiling the speeches and essays of multiple academics during the interwar years of the 20th century, The Shield was a prophetic call to acceptance and compassion from Russian citizens towards their Jewish neighbours.

[William · Rating 1 out of 5]

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