THE FOREIGN DELEGATION OF THE RSDLP AND ITS ROLE IN ATTEMPTS TO UNITE THE RUSSIAN EMIGRATION IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD (1945-1951)
https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2021.2.10
Abstract
This article is devoted to an episode in the history of Russian Social Democrats in emigration, little studied in domestic and foreign historiography - the participation of the Foreign Delegation of the RSDLP in attempts to create a single center for Russian emigration in the early post-war years (1945-1951). On the basis of the minutes of the meetings of the Foreign Delegation and materials from the periodicals, the author analyzes the discussion that the Mensheviks had on their participation in such an association. The author focuses special attention on the work on the discussions between the Mensheviks from the Foreign Delegation about the «defectors» and the former «Vlasovites» who made up a significant part of the second wave of emigration. A detailed analysis of the views of the members of the Foreign Delegation on this part of the emigration is given, the disagreements that arose within the Foreign Delegation on the issue of joint participation with the former «Vlasovites» and «defectors» in the work of emigrant organizations are considered. The article reveals how this discussion reflected the disagreements that existed among the Mensheviks on the further tactics of the struggle for the establishment of a democratic regime in the USSR and what role these contradictions played in the final self-dissolution of the Foreign Delegation.
About the Author
I. M. Furgalev
Southern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
post-graduate student, Chair of Russian History of the XX–XXI Centuries, Institute of History and International Relations,
Rostov on Don
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Furgalev I.M. THE FOREIGN DELEGATION OF THE RSDLP AND ITS ROLE IN ATTEMPTS TO UNITE THE RUSSIAN EMIGRATION IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD (1945-1951). Humanities and law research. 2021;(2):73-76. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2021.2.10
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