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The pogroms of 1881-1884 caused jews living in the russian empire to question whether russia was a rechsstaat, meaning

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Rechtsstaat is a doctrine in continental European legal thinking, originating in German jurisprudence, that can be translated as "legal state", "state of law", "state of justice", "state of rights", or "state based on justice and integrity".
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