Instead of a preface. Emigration: as a consequence and as a factor of social and cultural transformations

Abstract

The guide offered to the attention of readers is essentially an encyclopedic publication that contains brief biographical data on more than 750 citizens of the Russian Empire, the Russian state, the USSR, who for one reason or another left the country after the October Revolution of 1917. The compilation of the collection is based on the author’s personal card file, which began to take shape in the mid-1990s while working on the preparation for publication of the two-volume Correspondence of Former Tsarist Diplomats of the 1934–1940s (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, M., “Gaia , 1998). In the directory, personal information, in addition to traditional data on the years of life, the main stages of their state, social, military or scientific activities, also contains information about social origin, nationality, education, the presence of printed works, personal memories or memories of close relatives, about the attitude to the Soviet Union, on perpetuating the memory of prominent emigrants, etc. The reference book is intended for a wide range of specialists in history, political scientists and sociologists, as well as readers interested in the history of Russia. The guide offered to the attention of readers is essentially an encyclopedic publication that contains brief biographical data on more than 750 citizens of the Russian Empire, the Russian state, the USSR, who for one reason or another left the country after the October Revolution of 1917.The compilation of the collection is based on the author’s personal card file, which began to take shape in the mid-1990s while working on the preparation for publication of the two-volume Correspondence of Former Tsarist Diplomats of the 1934–1940s (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, M., “Gaia , 1998).In the directory, personal information, in addition to traditional data on the years of life, the main stages of their state, social, military or scientific activities, also contains information about social origin, nationality, education, the presence of printed works, personal memories or memories of close relatives, about the attitude to the Soviet Union, on perpetuating the memory of prominent emigrants, etc.The reference book is intended for a wide range of specialists in history, political scientists and sociologists, as well as readers interested in the history of Russia.

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