Attitudes towards the Revolution of 1917 by the first wave of Russian emigrants to Prague
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2021-3-97-106
Abstract
The article assesses the influence of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 on the emergence of ideological and political trends among the representatives of the Russian emigration. In the absence of any opportunity to influence the situation in which Russia found itself in 1917, the emigrants decided to focus on the analysis and study of the experience of the revolution and the Civil War, as well as to discuss possible options for the development of events and their impact on the future of the country. The author considers such trends of emigrant political thought as smenovehovstvo and eurasianism, the common idea of which was the realization of the need to accept the Bolshevik revolution and its results in order to preserve the unity and power of Russia. Special attention is paid to the collections of articles “Change of Milestones” and “Exodus to the East”, which marked the beginning of the emigrant ideologies under consideration, as well as to their authors, who attempted to comprehend the role of the Russian intelligentsia in the new political and economic conditions. In addition, the article examines such trends among representatives of Russian emigration as “returnism”, the cult of personality and the world revolution.
Studies of the history of eurasianism and smenovehovstvo allow to conduct a more in-depth study of the life and activities of the Russian Diaspora in the 1920s – 1930s, as well as to present the diversity of the processes of the ideological and political heritage of the Russian emigration of the first wave in Czechoslovakia.
About the Author
M. E. Gorokhova
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria E. Gorokhova
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Gorokhova M.E. Attitudes towards the Revolution of 1917 by the first wave of Russian emigrants to Prague. History and Archives. 2021;(3):97-106. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2021-3-97-106
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