2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Historical Study of the Relation between Russian Emigre Intellectuals and the Soviet Society
Project/Area Number |
12610395
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Principal Investigator |
NAKASHIMA Takeshi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (70241495)
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Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2001
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Keywords | Soviet Union / Modern history / emigrant / Communist party / Changing Landmarks / Ustrialov |
Research Abstract |
This study aimed to examine the conversion in political attitude of the Russian intellectuals who had emigrated after the October revolution in 1917. And this study also analyzed the influence and the historical significance of the ecognition of the Soviet government by the emigre intellectuals. The main object of this study is so-called 'smenovekhovstvo' - the Changing Landmarks movement that had a certain impact among Russian emigrants. In considering this movement, the political thoughts of N.V. Ustrialov, a low professor who exiled in 1920, are mainly analyzed, because he was the major figure in this heresy. Ustrialov thought that the Russian revolution would 'evolve' through 'the way of Thermidor', and in doing so the revolution would be saved from its own excesses. Thus Ustrialov called to the emigres to reconcile with the Soviet government and support it for the sake of the Russian nation. For the Soviet government the appearance of the Changing Landmarks movement was an indication that the united front of emigre opposition to the Bolsheviks had broken down. In addition, the Soviet leaders who had a realistic perspective saw that this movement could be used in order to get skilled technical, managerial and cultural intellectuals for national reconstruction. In this sense this movement functioned for so-called 'bourgeois specialists' as an ideology which justified their collaboration with the Soviet government.
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