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Using detailed panel data from the Pale of Settlement area between 1800 and 1927, we document that anti-Jewish pogroms--mob violence against the Jewish minority--broke out when economic shocks coincided with political turmoil. When this happened, pogroms primarily occurred in places where Jews...
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standards, which shows that throughout history Russia significantly underperformed advanced economies. We also compile reliable … quantifications of the human cost of Stalin's dictatorship. Second, we discuss new studies of imperial Russia that partially confirm … Gerschenkron's classic conjecture on the institutional explanation for Russia's relatively low level of economic development and on …
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