Abstract

The article is devoted to the activities of the leader of the Cadet party P. N. Milyukov in exile in London and Paris. The author examines his political, scientific, editorial and journalistic activities. It is noted that Milyukov has made significant progress in all these areas. As a politician he sought to unite all the anti-monarchical and democratic forces of the Russian emigration, as a platform for such association he thoughts “a new tactic” — the end of the armed struggle against the Bolsheviks and the fight against them in new forms. Being a politician, Milyukov did not cease to be a historian and publicist, the newspaper “Posledniye Novosti” he edited was popular not only in Russian emigration, it was read also Soviet Russia. The activity of P. N. Milyukov was aimed at supporting those emigrants and ordinary people in Soviet Russia who had not enough means of subsistence, as well as the support of Russian culture abroad. The article is based on a wide range of both published and archival documents, primarily those stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (Milyukov, Kuskova, Argunov funds).

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