Russian Federation, 359–63 Russian Revolution, 360 and civil war, 172, 173–74 defined, 167 February Revolution, 175 in Fiddler on the Roof , 326 Mercurianism in, 199. See also Bolsheviks; Red Army; Whites Russians: and Bolsheviks, 310 education of, 223 and ethnicity, 250 Gorky on, 164 and Jews, 329 modernization of, 252–54 and nationalism, 277–86, 288, 322 and nationalist accounts of Jews, 360–61 and Soviet nationalities, 331 Soviet pride in, 275–84 traditional opposition of to Jews, 362 Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), 151–52, 155 Russo-Germans, 255 Rwala people, 23–24 Rybak, Issachar, 126 Rybakov, Anatoly, 191–92, 209–10, 221 Sabra, 212, 213, 267–68, 367. See also Israel; Israel, State of; Palestine Sachar, H., 120 Sakharov, Andrei, 332–33, 334, 340 Samoilov, David, 233, 236–37, 238, 280–81 Samosud, S., 290 Sampson, John, 17–18 Samuel, Maurice, 27, 101 The World of Sholem Aleichem , 323 Schapiro, Leonard, 154, 177