Refugee history and refugees in Russia during and after the First World War
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2017

This article analyses the causes and consequences of mass population displacement in the Russian Empire during the First World War and its immediate aftermath. The wartime refugee crisis in Russia must be understood in broader conceptual and historiographical terms, to which the first part of the article is devoted. There follows a discussion of the origins, scale and impact of the movement of civilians from Russia's western borderlands to the Russian interior, as it was understood by contempora