Communism in Russia Only Exists on Paper’

Czechoslovakia and the Russian Refugee Crisis, 1919–1924

Bibliographic Data

ID12269152
AuthorsSam Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume16
Issue3
Pages371-394
Publication date2007-06-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0960777307003980
OpenAlexW2140397351
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

This article revisits the motives behind the Czechoslovak scheme ‘Russian Action’, which granted thousands of Russian émigrés residence and financial support in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, it looks at the efforts to bring to Czechoslovakia Russian civil war refugees living in Constantinople. Historians have conventionally focused on Prague as the home to intellectual and cultural exiles from Russia and have also decreed that the émigré policies of Czechoslovakia were driven principally by the humanitarian concerns of a liberal and democratic government. This article looks, instead, at the regime's deep-seated political motives, in particular its plans for a future, Bolshevik-free Russia, reconstructed under its guiding hand. In so doing, it raises questions about Czechoslovakia's self-image, ideology and place within the international hierarchy

Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Slovak · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies

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