Evacuation of the Crimea of 1920 according to the memoirs of contemporaries (to the centenary of the “Russian Exodus”)
Journal: OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii
Year: 2020

The article is devoted to the events related with the evacuation of the defeated White Russian Army and civilians from the Crimea in November 1920 under the leadership of Lieutenant General Baron P.N. Wrangel. The developments in the South of Russia are analyzed on the basis of accounts by eyewitnesses. Special attention is paid to their estimates of the general situation of the White Crimea and P.N. Wrangel’s activities as its head, the weak points in the organization of the Peninsula’s defence