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Korotkiy, A. Yu. POST-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN WAR EXILE ON THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(8):8–15. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1244
Historiography, source studies, methods of historical research |
POST-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN WAR EXILE ON THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
| Korotkiy A. Yu. | Petrozavodsk State University |
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Keywords: Civil War in Russia historiography N. N. Golovin Yu. N. Danilov A. I. Denikin A. A. Kersnovsky |
Summary: The article examines the views of Russian post-revolutionary military emigrants on the problem national
consolidation in the context of the First World War and the collapse of the military efforts of the Russian Empire. The
study reveals an alternative interpretation of the causes of Russia’s defeat, which differs from the canonical provisions
of Soviet historiography, which focused on socio-economic backwardness and national oppression. Special attention is
paid to the interpretation of national disintegration as a key factor in weakening the military’s combat capability, as well
as to the role of regional identities in undermining a unified national identity. Based on the analysis of memoirs,
journalistic and research publications of A. I. Denikin, N. N. Golovin, Yu. N. Danilov and other representatives of the
emigrant military community, the ideas about the unrealized model of the “army of the armed people”, the absence of
genuine civic patriotism in the country and the failure of the modernization policy of the tsarist regime are reconstructed.
The author reveals a deep semantic and political distance between the White emigrants’ and Soviet narratives, pointing to the liberal-democratic orientation of the political views of the emigrant officers, which is often extremely distorted in the official historiography of the USSR. |
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