PREREQUISITES FOR MIGRATION OF EUROPEAN MIGRANTS TO THE USSR, AS WELL AS THEIR MAIN CATEGORIES

Abstract

In the 1920s and 1930s, there were severalimmigration wavesto the USSR from Western countries,which were different in nature. Under the influence of domestic and foreign policy events, the quantitative and qualitative composition of immigration has changed. It is not possible to answer in monosyllables why foreigners from economically more developed countries decided to move to a foreign country, since a number of factors of economic, political, cultural, psychological and legal order simultaneously influenced the decision to immigrate to the USSR. The persecuted participants of these events found political asylum in the USSR. Accordingly, it can be assumed that this group was heterogeneous in national, age, and even more so in professional composition. It is necessary to correlate certain events of world history with the migration processes that arise as a result of them, which in turn will help us to identify the reasons that guided certain groups of immigrants to the USSR. In particular, we will alsotalk about the category oflabor immigration to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s, which implies the entry of the able-bodied population into the country.