Paul Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199250219
- eISBN:
- 9780191719547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250219.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter provides background on the inter-war Russian emigration, its numbers, geographic spread, demographic make-up, and political divisions. It explains that most Russian émigrés expected ...
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This chapter provides background on the inter-war Russian emigration, its numbers, geographic spread, demographic make-up, and political divisions. It explains that most Russian émigrés expected their exile to be short; this was particularly true of military émigrés. Russians of all sorts experienced both economic hardship and xenophobia during their years of exile. This produced a growing sense of isolation and of paranoia. The Russian emigration split into smaller and smaller political groups. The chapter describes various émigré political groups and their leaders, such as P. N. Miliukov, Smena Vekh, the Eurasian movement, monarchism, and the Mladorossy.Less
This chapter provides background on the inter-war Russian emigration, its numbers, geographic spread, demographic make-up, and political divisions. It explains that most Russian émigrés expected their exile to be short; this was particularly true of military émigrés. Russians of all sorts experienced both economic hardship and xenophobia during their years of exile. This produced a growing sense of isolation and of paranoia. The Russian emigration split into smaller and smaller political groups. The chapter describes various émigré political groups and their leaders, such as P. N. Miliukov, Smena Vekh, the Eurasian movement, monarchism, and the Mladorossy.
Paul Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199250219
- eISBN:
- 9780191719547
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250219.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book traces the fate of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the anti-Bolshevik White Armies who fled Russia at the end of the Russian Civil War. Even as the troops dispersed throughout the ...
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This book traces the fate of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the anti-Bolshevik White Armies who fled Russia at the end of the Russian Civil War. Even as the troops dispersed throughout the world, they continued to think of themselves as soldiers, kept their organization intact and in some cases even continued their military training. This book provides the first detailed history of this phenomenon. It outlines the activities of White military organizations in exile, especially the army of General P. N. Wrangel and its successor the Russkii Obsche-Voinskii Soiuz (ROVS), including their underground struggles against the Soviet Union, the humanitarian aid supplied to members, the ideological debates in which they participated, and efforts to collaborate with Germany in the Second World War. In this way the book furthers understanding of the White movement, of Russian émigré military organizations, and of the history of the inter-war Russian emigration.Less
This book traces the fate of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the anti-Bolshevik White Armies who fled Russia at the end of the Russian Civil War. Even as the troops dispersed throughout the world, they continued to think of themselves as soldiers, kept their organization intact and in some cases even continued their military training. This book provides the first detailed history of this phenomenon. It outlines the activities of White military organizations in exile, especially the army of General P. N. Wrangel and its successor the Russkii Obsche-Voinskii Soiuz (ROVS), including their underground struggles against the Soviet Union, the humanitarian aid supplied to members, the ideological debates in which they participated, and efforts to collaborate with Germany in the Second World War. In this way the book furthers understanding of the White movement, of Russian émigré military organizations, and of the history of the inter-war Russian emigration.
Paul Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501747342
- eISBN:
- 9781501747366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501747342.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Russian Politics
This chapter concerns Russian emigration. Historians have contrasted the political weakness of the Russian emigration with its vibrant artistic and intellectual life. In 1922, the Bolsheviks expelled ...
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This chapter concerns Russian emigration. Historians have contrasted the political weakness of the Russian emigration with its vibrant artistic and intellectual life. In 1922, the Bolsheviks expelled 220 of Russia's leading intellectuals on the so-called “philosophers' steamer.” They and other émigrés made important contributions to a large range of subjects, including philosophy and history, while émigré communities produced hundreds of journals and newspapers. In the post-Soviet era, as Russian politicians and intellectuals have sought non-communist sources of inspiration, many have turned to émigré writings. Important political figures such as President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have cited émigré thinkers in their speeches. Although it was cut off from the vitally important developments taking place in the Soviet Union, the emigration is an integral part of Russian history.Less
This chapter concerns Russian emigration. Historians have contrasted the political weakness of the Russian emigration with its vibrant artistic and intellectual life. In 1922, the Bolsheviks expelled 220 of Russia's leading intellectuals on the so-called “philosophers' steamer.” They and other émigrés made important contributions to a large range of subjects, including philosophy and history, while émigré communities produced hundreds of journals and newspapers. In the post-Soviet era, as Russian politicians and intellectuals have sought non-communist sources of inspiration, many have turned to émigré writings. Important political figures such as President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have cited émigré thinkers in their speeches. Although it was cut off from the vitally important developments taking place in the Soviet Union, the emigration is an integral part of Russian history.
José Vergara
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501759901
- eISBN:
- 9781501759925
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501759901.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. The book uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, ...
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This book explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. The book uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses. The creative reworkings, or “translations,” of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers that the book examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West. The book illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own place in literary history. The book offers one overarching approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and, more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet Russian environment.Less
This book explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. The book uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses. The creative reworkings, or “translations,” of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers that the book examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West. The book illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own place in literary history. The book offers one overarching approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and, more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet Russian environment.
Kathryn E. Stoner
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190860714
- eISBN:
- 9780190054571
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190860714.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Russian Politics
This chapter examines the growth of Russian human capital since the collapse of the Soviet Union in order to understand whether the health and demography of the population can support the country’s ...
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This chapter examines the growth of Russian human capital since the collapse of the Soviet Union in order to understand whether the health and demography of the population can support the country’s foreign policies under Vladimir Putin. It examines trends of stubbornly low, although improving, life expectancy, and fertility, high male mortality, emigration and immigration trends, and overall population growth in the post-communist period. The chapter also looks at the effects of high Russian social inequality and wealth concentration. In order to understand whether Russian social trends are supportive of increasing the global reach of the country under Putin’s leadership, the chapter also looks at post-secondary educational reforms in Russia, and the degree to which the Russian labor force is prepared to support increased economic growth in Russia.Less
This chapter examines the growth of Russian human capital since the collapse of the Soviet Union in order to understand whether the health and demography of the population can support the country’s foreign policies under Vladimir Putin. It examines trends of stubbornly low, although improving, life expectancy, and fertility, high male mortality, emigration and immigration trends, and overall population growth in the post-communist period. The chapter also looks at the effects of high Russian social inequality and wealth concentration. In order to understand whether Russian social trends are supportive of increasing the global reach of the country under Putin’s leadership, the chapter also looks at post-secondary educational reforms in Russia, and the degree to which the Russian labor force is prepared to support increased economic growth in Russia.
Vincent Giroud
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199399895
- eISBN:
- 9780199399932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199399895.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Moving to Paris in 1924, Nabokov was briefly the roommate of painter Pawel Tchelitchew in Montparnasse and began associating with French musicians such as Georges Auric and Henri Sauguet. Going ...
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Moving to Paris in 1924, Nabokov was briefly the roommate of painter Pawel Tchelitchew in Montparnasse and began associating with French musicians such as Georges Auric and Henri Sauguet. Going through a religious crisis, he also became close to the circle of Jacques Maritain and his wife Raïssa. After he was introduced to Serge Diaghilev, who in turn introduced him to Stravinsky, his career took off in 1928 when the Ballets Russes mounted his ballet-cantata Ode, in a choreography by Leonide Massine, with a futuristic set by Tchelitchew.Less
Moving to Paris in 1924, Nabokov was briefly the roommate of painter Pawel Tchelitchew in Montparnasse and began associating with French musicians such as Georges Auric and Henri Sauguet. Going through a religious crisis, he also became close to the circle of Jacques Maritain and his wife Raïssa. After he was introduced to Serge Diaghilev, who in turn introduced him to Stravinsky, his career took off in 1928 when the Ballets Russes mounted his ballet-cantata Ode, in a choreography by Leonide Massine, with a futuristic set by Tchelitchew.
Vincent Giroud
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199399895
- eISBN:
- 9780199399932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199399895.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Nabokov pursued his musical education, first in Stuttgart with Joseph Haas, in 1920–21, then in Berlin with Paul Juon and Ferruccio Busoni. In Berlin, he became close to his uncle Vladimir, ...
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Nabokov pursued his musical education, first in Stuttgart with Joseph Haas, in 1920–21, then in Berlin with Paul Juon and Ferruccio Busoni. In Berlin, he became close to his uncle Vladimir, assassinated in 1922. His Berlin friendships included Felix Bethmann-Hollweg (son of the German chancellor), the future anti-Nazi diplomat Albrecht von Bernstorff, Russian emigre writer Aleksei Remizov, and art patron Count Harry Kessler. The end of the chapter discusses Nabokov’s controversial meeting with Rainer Maria Rilke.Less
Nabokov pursued his musical education, first in Stuttgart with Joseph Haas, in 1920–21, then in Berlin with Paul Juon and Ferruccio Busoni. In Berlin, he became close to his uncle Vladimir, assassinated in 1922. His Berlin friendships included Felix Bethmann-Hollweg (son of the German chancellor), the future anti-Nazi diplomat Albrecht von Bernstorff, Russian emigre writer Aleksei Remizov, and art patron Count Harry Kessler. The end of the chapter discusses Nabokov’s controversial meeting with Rainer Maria Rilke.
Vincent Giroud
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199399895
- eISBN:
- 9780199399932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199399895.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Nabokov left France in 1933 to lecture at the Barnes Foundation. Shortly afterward, his ballet Union Pacific, on a scenario by poet Archibald MacLeish, the first ballet on an American theme, ...
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Nabokov left France in 1933 to lecture at the Barnes Foundation. Shortly afterward, his ballet Union Pacific, on a scenario by poet Archibald MacLeish, the first ballet on an American theme, triumphed in a choreography by Massine. Nabokov’s friendships in New York included photographers Cartier-Bresson and Beaton and composer Elliott Carter, to whom he always remained close. In 1936, after visiting his mother in Nazi Germany, he took up a position as music professor at Wells College, in upstate New York.Less
Nabokov left France in 1933 to lecture at the Barnes Foundation. Shortly afterward, his ballet Union Pacific, on a scenario by poet Archibald MacLeish, the first ballet on an American theme, triumphed in a choreography by Massine. Nabokov’s friendships in New York included photographers Cartier-Bresson and Beaton and composer Elliott Carter, to whom he always remained close. In 1936, after visiting his mother in Nazi Germany, he took up a position as music professor at Wells College, in upstate New York.