Minor concessions combined with anti-Semitic scapegoating crushed the 1905 Russian revolution

Evidence

In response to the surging revolutionary coalition, Russia’s elites, including the tsar, fought back in two ways: first, by offering concessions, including the creation of a weak multiparty parliamentary system, and second, and simultaneously, by unleashing a virulent campaign of anti-Semitic hate that painted the 1905 revolt as a plot by seditious Jews to rule over Christians. This combination of minor reforms with a major distraction did the trick. Immediately after the reforms were announced, anti-Jewish mobs staged bloody pogroms in 660 towns and cities, with the worst taking place in Odessa. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 942

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the crossing-of-the-red-line playbook Klein traces across the book — deflection of class revolt into identity hatred. Fits the ADDENDUM on sacrifice/stratified societies only loosely; better as a sustained historical pattern.