Parallel Lives?: Russian Emigres in Bulgaria and Greece (1920-1939)

• In Event: Between Integration and Isolation: Eastern European Expatriates East and West (1830-1939)

Abstract

The paper will examine the factors that helped both to keep post-Civil War Russian emigres isolated and integrated in their new host societies. On one hand, they were plunged into a foreign culture and forced to develop on its margins their own networks of socialization and livelihood. On the other hand, they could get involved in the societal mainstream based on shared religion, linguistic affinity, and rightwing ideologies.

Author

• Denis V. Vovchenko, Northeastern State U