POLEMICS ON THE NATIONAL ISSUE AND SOCIO-CULTURAL PROBLEMS IN THE WORKS AND DISCUSSIONS OF THE RUSSIAN DIASPORA

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore the problem of the many-sided Russian post-revolutionary emigration — the national issue. This question has excited the consciousness of both the Russian emigrant community and the representatives of various ethnic groups in exile. And it was not accidental. This problem that was the most difficult, most confusing issue of the social and political life of pre-revolutionary Russia, has been heatedly discussed by the Russian intelligentsia living abroad. The scientific novelty of the article consists in revealing various aspects of the national issue in the works and discussions of the Russian diaspora. It is quite natural that the national question worried many representatives of the Russian diaspora. In addition, being far from the homeland, abroad, the moderate emigrant community closely followed the social, economic, political and other events taking place in the USSR. A review of the works and the content of the discussions that took place in the ranks of the multifaceted Russian emigration on the national question and nation-building testifies to the fact that representatives of the intelligentsia and politicians of different nationalities who, by the will of fate, found themselves outside their homeland, could not rise above class political antipathies, and avoid the politicization of assessments of the changes of the 1920s-40s both in the USSR and in the emigration. It was difficult for them to get away from subjectivity and political bias in assessing such complex issues as the nation, the national question, and the national idea.