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The Bolshevik takeover in 1917 and the subsequent Civil War drove thousands of Russians into exile. Expecting the Bolshevik dictatorship would soon collapse, they settled in the West, waiting for the moment they could leave their refuges in Berlin, Prague, and Paris and return to their homeland in triumph. But as the Reds tightened their grip, these emigres faced the dilemma of coming to terms with their enemies or accepting the loneliness of exile. Early in the 1920s, some of the emigres began to argue for an end to resistance, pleading that the Russian nation and state could be saved only if opposition to Soviet power came to an end. The smenovekhovstvo (changing signposts) movement called for emigres to come to terms with the Soviet regime. Taking its name from a collection of articles written by young emigre intellectuals who had fought on the side of the Whites in the Civil War, the movement appealed for an end to the anti-Bolshevik struggle, the acceptance of the October Revolu

Coming to Terms with the Soviet Regime

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 1 October 1994
      ISBN-13 9780875801872
      978-0875801872
      ISBN-10 0875801870

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      Book Synopsis
      The Bolshevik takeover in 1917 and the subsequent Civil War drove thousands of Russians into exile. Expecting the Bolshevik dictatorship would soon collapse, they settled in the West, waiting for the moment they could leave their refuges in Berlin, Prague, and Paris and return to their homeland in triumph. But as the Reds tightened their grip, these emigres faced the dilemma of coming to terms with their enemies or accepting the loneliness of exile. Early in the 1920s, some of the emigres began to argue for an end to resistance, pleading that the Russian nation and state could be saved only if opposition to Soviet power came to an end. The smenovekhovstvo (changing signposts) movement called for emigres to come to terms with the Soviet regime. Taking its name from a collection of articles written by young emigre intellectuals who had fought on the side of the Whites in the Civil War, the movement appealed for an end to the anti-Bolshevik struggle, the acceptance of the October Revolu

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