Russian nationalist violence in 1905 targeted Jews despite Muslims being the larger minority

Evidence

Muslims confronted violence, too, but under quite different circumstances. Outbreaks of popular violence against Muslims were quite rare. In Kazan Province, for instance, when Russian nationalist agitators of the right-wing, monarchist political movement known as ‘the Black Hundreds’ voiced their grievances against non-Russians in the region during the revolution of 1905–07, they focused their attentions primarily on the Jews, who were a relatively small minority in the region, not the far more demographically significant Muslim Tatars. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 536

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the manuscript’s core thesis — antisemitism and Islamophobia as a shared story but with divergent historical trajectories in the Russian Empire.
• SHARE: For anyone studying the 1905-07 Russian revolution or the Black Hundreds movement specifically.