Open AccessA Land of Kindred Intellects: Russian Émigrés in Bulgaria during the Early Post-Revolutionary Years
Author(s) -
Ричард Темпест
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
filosofičeskie pisʹma. russko-evropejskij dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-5413
DOI - 10.17323/2658-5413-2020-3-4-113-123
Subject(s) - refugee , politics , spanish civil war , empire , political science , economic history , world war ii , ancient history , history , development economics , law , economics
As the civil war in the European part of the former Russian Empire was ending tens of thousands of refugees fled to Bulgaria where they constituted an informal national minority that enjoyed the support of most of the host country’s political factions with the exception of the communists. The Russian émigré presence in Bulgaria, which had just experienced its Second National Catastrophe, i.e., defeat in World War I, led to the merging of two national traumas.