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216 M. MISHKINSKYthe revolutionary movement suffered from a deep misconceptionabout the contemporary Jewish situation. It ignored both the autonomousnature of Jewish existence and its complicated interrelationshipswith the surrounding society. As a result the Narodnaia volia organizationblundered tragically in accepting the pogroms. From the otherside emanated the vacillating attitude of the Southern-RussianWorkers' Union. Even the union's bold step against the pogrom, takenby Pavlo Ivaniv in writing, printing, and circulating the appeal of27 April 1881, was not free from bias.Tel Aviv University