КАЗАКИ В ЛАГЕРЯХ ДЛЯ ПЕРЕМЕЩЕННЫХ ЛИЦ

Abstract

The article analyzes simultaneously two problems that are still poorly understood in Russian historiography. One of them is related to the activities of camps for displaced persons. Another problem covers the stay of the Cossacks abroad in one of the little-studied periods of Russian history - the first years after the end of the Second World War. Attention is drawn to the fact that, on the whole, the Cossacks who found themselves among the displaced persons followed the same path as other immigrants from the USSR. At the same time, the peculiarity of the stay of the Cossacks from among the persons who ended up outside the USSR during the Second World War in the DP camps of the was the fact that the Cossacks who went abroad during the Civil War were adjacent to them. It also proves the conclusion that in the camps for displaced persons the socio-political and socio-cultural life of the Cossacks was saturated not only with the discussion of the current situation, but also touched upon the issues of the past and future of the Cossacks. It is shown that the relationship between the Cossacks of the first and second waves of emigration was contradictory - it ranged from mutual assistance to rejection. And the reasons for this dualism were predominantly subjective.