Another Russia. Research on the history of Russian emigration

Contrary to the winged phrase of Georges Danton, the Motherland cannot be taken with him on the soles of the boots", the Russian emigrants of the “first wave” (1918-1940) managed to create “another Russia” abroad. Various aspects of its political and social life are considered in the book of the famous specialist in the history of Russian emigration Oleg Budnitsky. One of the plots of the book is the fate of "Russian money" abroad: the last part of the so -called Kolchak gold, the finances of the imperial surname, the Petrograd loan (silver) treasury, which ended up in the hands of General P.N. Wrangel and became a source of financing of his army. In another section, the author considers the searches by emigrants of ways to overcome Bolshevism - from hope for its evolution or decomposition from the inside to the ideas of the transition to terror. The most extensive part of the volume is devoted to the history of emigration during the Second World War, when some professed the principle of "against the Bolsheviks at least with a line", even if his name is Adolf Hitler, while others believed in the degeneration of the Soviet regime and tried to reconcile with it. The collection also included portraits of prominent figures of emigration - diplomats, lawyers, entrepreneurs, writers. The research included in the book is based mainly on the materials of foreign archives. Oleg Budnitsky - professor of the faculty of humanities, director of the Institute of Soviet and Post -Soviet History of the Higher School of Economics