title: Refugee history and refugees in Russia during and after the First World War
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metadata.value: Gatrell, Peter
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:31:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:31:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Gatrell Peter. Refugee history and refugees in Russia during and after the First World War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 497–521.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8443
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article analyses the causes and consequences of mass population displacement in the Russian
  Empire during the First World War and its immediate aftermath. The wartime refugee crisis in
  Russia must be understood in broader conceptual and historiographical terms, to which the first part
  of the article is devoted. There follows a discussion of the origins, scale and impact of the movement
  of civilians from Russia’s western borderlands to the Russian interior, as it was understood by contemporaries
  and as it has been reflected in the historiography. The article also considers the political implications
  of the refugee crisis as manifested by the formation of governmental and non-governmental
  organisations. One particularly significant development was the emergence of national committees
  whose activities on behalf of ethnic minority refugees including Poles, Latvians, Jews and others, drew
  attention to ideas of ‘national’ suffering and persecution under the Tsarist regime. The final part of the
  article looks at the aftermath of the First World War, including the impact of the October Revolution
  and Civil War, and the formation of the first international refugee regime under the auspices of the
  League of Nations. The conclusion recapitulates the main points, emphasising the creation during the
  war of the category of the refugee as an object both of bureaucratic and humanitarian concern. Refs 75.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: refugees
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Refugee history and refugees in Russia during and after the First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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