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One of the main organizers of the October Revolution was Leon Trotsky, an assimilated Jew who is widely considered the second most important Russian revolutionary leader after Lenin. The first head of state of Soviet Russia was Yakov Sverdlov, who was also Jewish. (Sverdlov died just two years after the revolution from the flu, but streets all over the former Soviet Union are still named for him.) The leaders of the Mensheviks, the socialist party that held slightly different views from the Bolsheviks, were also mostly Jewish, according to Gennady Estraikh, a Jewish history professor at New York University. The Mensheviks’s leader Julius Martov, who was Jewish, was one of Lenin’s closest friends.

The Jewish Museum in Moscow will showcase the pamphlets of the Jewish communists, written in Russian, the Yiddish fliers of the anarchists, and the writings of the Zionist socialists. There are photos of Jews marching through the streets of the Russian capital with Stars of David on their banners, and even a Jewish communist pamphlet that says, “Jewish Red Army soldier, protect your Socialist homeland!” A year after the revolution, Soviet Russia became the first country in the world to declare antisemitism a crime ‒ even an antisemitic joke could land a person in prison.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.