The Soviet Union and the Problem of Refugees and Displaced Persons 1917–1956

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9541395
AutoresGeorge Ginsburgs (University of California, Los Angeles, autor correspondente)
Ano1957
Volume51
Fascículo2
Páginas325-361
Data de publicação1957-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of International Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2195710
OpenAlexW2312665703
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas8

The Soviet Union, since its inception in 1917, has been the world’s largest source of refugees and displaced persons. This in itself would be sufficient motive to examine the Soviet attitude towards this category of individuals, but apart from mere quantity, the question is of interest, too, for other reasons: Russian refugees were the cause and the first subjects of international legal attempts to solve the problem; Soviet policies toward them have been unusual at all times, resulting in some bold innovations in international law; and most refugees and displaced persons at present come from behind the Iron Curtain, thereby involving the Soviet Union and its satellites, whose policies are influenced by and modeled on the Soviet experience

Development economics · Displaced person · Economics · Internally displaced person · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Soviet union · Law · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends