The Tarnishing “Gold” of Russia Abroad: Thinking Critically About the Recent Historiography on the Interwar European Emigration
2/2003
Published in Russian.
SUMMARY:
In his historiographic survey Igor’ Martyniuk focuses on one of the flourishing trends of historical studies in Post Soviet Russia, namely the history and myths of Russian (rossiiskaia) emigration after 1917. The author explores the psychological, cultural, and intellectual conditions of post Soviet transition under which the study of emigration boomed and continues to dominate the agenda of the historical profession. Martyniuk analyzes different aspects of historiography of Russian emigration, including the social, intellectual, and political history of йmigrйs, the study of migration regulations of host countries, the history of Russian and non Russian nationalisms abroad by comparing the state of art in Russian and non Russian (including Western European and American) historical literature. The author observes that the impact of political and intellectual climate emigration studies in post Soviet Russia resulted in a peculiar distribution of themes and interpretations as well as in a descriptive and bibliographic character of early works. The author concludes that the present state of emigrations studies is ripe for methodological innovations, synthetic works, and conceptual discussion on history of the Russian emigration.
Notes
Западная историография – см.: Karl Schlögel (Hrsg.). Russische Emigration in Deutschland 1918 bis 1941: Leben im europдischen Bьrgerkrieg. Berlin, 1995; Дончо Даскалов (Ред.). Бялата эмиграция в Булгария: материали от научната конференция: София, 23 и 24 септември 1999 г. София:, 2001; Amory Burchard. Klubs der russischen Dichter in Berlin 1920-1941: Institutionen des literarischen Lebens im Exil. Munchen, 2001. На данный момент глубоко исследована русская чехословацкая эмиграция. Итоговой работой следует считать монографию Елены Чиняевой, в ней же можно ознакомиться с теоретическими методологическими аспектами, свойственными современному изучению зарубежья на Западе, включая проблему анализа политического языка эмигрантов: Elena Chinyaeva. Russians outside Russia: The Émigré Community in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938. München, 2001. (Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum; Bd. 89). С многочисленными статьями по этому же региональному частному случаю можно ознакомится в двух многотомных сборниках: Vaclav Veber, Zdenek Sládek, Miluša Bubeníková (Eds.). Ruská a ukrajinská emigrace v CSR v letech 1918-1945. Praha: Seminár pro dejiny východní Evropy pri Ústavu svetových dejin FF UK v Praze, 1993-1995. 3 vols.; International Conference “Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian Emigration between the World Wars in Czechoslovakia. Results and Perspectives of Contemporary Research. Holdings of the Slavonic Library and Prague Archives.” Prague, August 14-15, 1995. Proceedings. Slavonic Library Attached to the National Library of the Czech Republic, Slavonic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts, Society for East and Central European Studies in the Czech Republic. Prague, 1995. 2 vols.