He instructed Nebe to organize pogroms (i.e. "self-cleansing") in the Bezirk Bialystok district, inspired by the warm welcome received from the Poles, when they chased out the Soviets along with their NKVD collaborators.

Over the last decade, religious violence in India has increasingly become what academics believe to be organized pogroms to eliminate minority communities.

From about the 14th century, the Holy Inquisition used this belief to organise pogroms against people it called heretics.

In response to Armenian claims, the Azerbaijani nationalists, most prominently the Azerbaijani Popular Front, organized pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku.

Several hundred people were arrested and charged with 'organising pogroms, murder and violence', according to Pravda ; troops remained on duty and a curfew was still in effect in Ferghana, and there were reports of further disturbances elsewhere.

Bezbozhnik alleged that some rabbis in the tsarist government's pay had helped organize anti-Jewish pogroms, while claiming that such actions had sparked similar atrocities in England, South Africa and other countries.

But Ferguson also shows how czarist authorities did not organize most pogroms, since they feared disorder more than they feared Jews.

In spring 1918, soon after Austria signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Ukrainian People's Republic, granting it territories claimed by Poles, he expressed alarm that Polish nationalists were attributing the events to the Jews, organizing pogroms and planning their eviction from Galicia.