Ending in China: The Rise, Development, and Disappearance of White Emigration in the Far East
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Ending in China: The Rise, Development, and Disappearance of White Emigration in the Far East
29.99 €
Pyotr Petrovich Balakshin is one of those White émigrés who never forgot their homeland, maintaining a strong connection to its history and culture. During World War I, as an enthusiastic boy, he enrolled in a military academy and, after a short three-month course, went to the front with the rank of ensign. He endured difficult trials on the Romanian front, then the Revolution, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Civil War, and emigration to Manchuria. A few years later, he managed to move to the United States, receive an education, and become a journalist and writer, but his interest in the fates of Russian emigrants in the Far East never wavered. He painstakingly collected information about Russians in Asian exile, bit by bit, and dedicated his documentary study, "Final in China," to this topic, covering the period from the 1920s to the 1950s. Balakshin considered this work, published in San Francisco in 1958, to be his life's work.
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