 | New Mecca, New Babylon: Paris and the Russian Exiles, 1920-1945 Subjects: Russians -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century; Refugees Political -- France -- Paris; Soviet Union History -- Revolution 1917–1921 -- Refugees; Three major waves of emigration from Soviet Russia followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War. While emigrants in the first wave have been identified mainly with a vague notion of aristocratic taxi drivers, Robert Johnston, through a collective biography of the roughly 120,000 Russians who lived in France during 1920-45, in particular in Paris, shows that this first wave of Russian emigrants made a much more significant contribution to French life and to western knowledge of Russia. Johnston Robert H. : Robert H. Johnston is a member of the Department of History, McMaster University.Robert H. Johnston is a member of the Department of History, McMaster University. |
