Emigres and Global Russian Identities.

The Russian Review has posted a list, with descriptions, of what looks like a great set of articles from past issues: Since its founding in 1941 by scholars critical of the Soviet Union, The Russian Review has seen emigre editors and authors play an important role in the journal’s direction and research agenda. Articles by emigres from the former Russian Empire in The Russian Review have explored historical questions, artistic critique, political discourse, and have speculated about the future of Russia on the international stage. The articles collected here were written by those who left Russia in the wake of the Empire’s collapse and the formation of the Soviet Union. It is important to note that not while they all spoke Russian, many of them were not ethnic Russians; there are authors from Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states, as well as Jewish, Belarusian, Georgian, and Armenian authors. A handful of these scholars were born in the early years of the emigration, after their…