The Second Postoctober Wave of Emigration from Russia: Historiographic Aspect
Year: 2014

The article is dedicated to the analysis of literature on people who left the USSR during World War II. Until recent years, the subject was extremely unpopular among Russian historians. This, to no small degree, is due to the fact that both on the level of official ideology and on one's subconscious level the entire second emigration has been affiliated with hostile forces: first with Nazi Germany and then with Western imperialists. In consequence, we know little about the second wave of emigrat