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\"Moscow-based journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan look at the complex, ever-shifting role of Russian emigrés since the 1917 October Revolution to the present day. From secret agents to doomed dissidents, the story of Russian emigrés is an invaluable angle through which to understand Russia in the modern world.\"-- Provided by publisher.

In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.

Panique sur la piste d'atterrissage !Un grain de sable, ou plutot de neige, dans un vol soigneusement prepare amene un commandant a se faire depasser par son avion... jusqu'a se retrouver aligne sur la mauvaise piste...Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite a embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carriere de pilote.A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR En 1948, Michel Vanvaerenbergh poursuit des etudes d'ingenieur industriel avant d'integrer l'ecole d'aviation civile a Bruxelles. Pendant pres de trente ans, il pilotera des Boeing pour le compte de la Sabena, la compagnie aerienne nationale belge. Devenu instructeur en vol, il donnera cours de navigation aerienne et maritime dans diverses ecoles et redigera le cours de navigation de l'administration de l'aeronautique. Son livre, Souvenirs sans gloire, se decline sous forme de 14 nouvelles.EXTRAIT Il fait froid en ce mois de janvier 1998. Nous partons a Moscou, Jerome B. et moi. Nous nous connaissons depuis longtemps : Jerome est un de mes eleves. C'est quelqu'un de consciencieux que je ne crains pas de laisser seul au cockpit lorsqu'un besoin physiologique urgent m'appelle ailleurs et, cerise sur le gateau, nous nous entendons comme cul et chemise.Le vol se presente bien, la meteo est bonne a Moscou, aussi bien a notre destination Sheremetievo, qu'a notre diversion Vnukovo. Il y a pas mal de vent, certes, mais comme souvent dans ce cas, la visibilite et le plafond ne posent pas de probleme. Il y a juste un tempo : averses de neige, visi 1 500 metres et plafond a 500 pieds. Tempo, comme le nom l'indique, c'est temporaire. S'il y a des averses, on prevoit qu'elles ne dureront pas. Et ce serait bien le diable si le tempo devait etre simultane sur les deux aerodromes. Je prendrais bien un doigt de fuel supplementaire, mais je suis deja a pleine charge.Pour prendre plus de fuel, je devrais debarquer des passagers. A 75 kg le passager, pour prendre une tonne, il faut en debarquer treize. Jerome est d'accord avec moi, la meteo ne le justifie pas. Ce que la meteo prevoit de pire, mille cinq cents metres et cinq cents pieds, c'est largement dans nos minimas.Le vol se passe bien, et nous approchons de Moscou. Nous sommes autorises direct MR. MR, c'est le VOR de Moscou, la plus puissante des aides a l'approche. Tous les pilotes belges connaissent sa frequence (114.6) de memoire car c'est la meme que celle du VOR de Bruxelles. Je commence a capter l'ATIS qui m'indique que nous sommes en plein dans le tempo. Il neige a gros flocons, mais surtout, et ca, ce n'etait pas precise dans le tempo, la visibilite est tres mauvaise. A tel point qu'on ne donne meme pas de visibilite : on donne des RVR. La RVR, nous l'avons vu, c'est le Runway Visual Range. En gros, la distance a laquelle on peut distinguer une forte lampe. Cela varie en fonction des circonstances, mais une RVR de 600 metres ne correspond souvent qu'a une visibilite reelle de l'ordre de 200 metres.

\"A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as their citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These \"displaced persons,\" or DPs-Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939-refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In Lost Souls, Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs. American enthusiasm for funding the refugee organizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only after DPs were redefined-from \"victims of war and Nazism\" to \"victims of Communism\"-in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America, Australia, and other countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this \"theft\" of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West's welcome of them, became an important theme in America's Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union. A compelling story of the early Cold War, Lost Souls is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved\"-- Provided by publisher.

\"Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of children to be torn from their homes. Examines the powerful and tragic history of child displacement in this region and the efforts of states, international organizations and others to 're-place' uprooted, and often orphaned, children. By analysing the causes, character and course of child displacement, and examining through first-person testimonies the children's experiences and later memories, the chapters in this volume shed new light on twentieth-century nation-building and social engineering and the emergence of modern concepts and practices of statehood, children's rights and humanitarianism. Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Rachel Faircloth Green, Gabriel Finder, Michael Kaznelson, Aldis Purs, Karl D. Qualls, Elizabeth White, Tara Zahra\"--Provided by publisher. --Contents: Placing the child in twentieth century history : contexts and framework / Nick BaronOrphaned testimonies : the place of displaced children in independent Latvia, 1918-26 / Aldis Purs -- Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child : the case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22 / Elizabeth White -- Memories of displacement : loss and reclamation of home/land in the narratives of Soviet child deportees of the 1930s / Michael Kaznelson and Nick Baron -- From hooligans to disciplined students : displacement, resettlement, and role modelling of Spanish Civil War children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 / Karl D. Qualls -- Making kin out of strangers : Soviet adoption during and after the Second World War / Rachel Faircloth Green -- Lost children : displaced children between nationalism and internationalism after the Second World War / Tara Zahra -- Child survivors in Polish Jewish collective memory after the Holocaust : the case of Undzere Kinder / Gabriel N. Finder -- Ethnicity, identity and imaginings of home in the memoirs of Lithuanian child deportees, 1941-53 / Tomas Balkelis -- Violence, childhood and the state : new perspectives on political practice and social experience in the twentieth century / Nick Baron.

\"In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in ... elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice [of] her peers ... When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose books Zoya has privately obsessed over for years--her luck seems to have taken a turn for the better. But she soon discovers that Leo is not the solution to her loneliness ... Grappling with class distinctions, national allegiance, and ethical fidelity--not to mention the powerful magnetism of sex--[this book] investigates how one's identity is formed, irrevocably, through a series of momentary decisions\"--Amazon.com.

The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often led to the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists.One of the first of these migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million Russians were forced into exile.

\"Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen reveals long-hidden interrogation systems that were set up by Germany's Western occupiers to protect internal security and gather intelligence about the Soviet Union as the Cold War brought millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies to Germany\"--Provided by publisher.

In the spring of 1944, the Yiddish poet and partisan Avrom Sutzkever was airlifted into the unoccupied Soviet Union. With him he brought more than new information about the Holocaust. He brought a distinct approach to witnessing, one that summoned Soviet Jews, and refugees especially, to tell him their stories in response. Sutzkever's testimony differed from other important testimonial publications that appeared in the Soviet media at the time. In the latter, we find a stylistic and conceptual separation between the voice of Jewish victim and Jewish advocate, observer and interpreter of catastrophe. By contrast, Sutzkever's work, the epic poem “Kol nidre” in particular, emphasizes dialogue and reciprocity among different witness perspectives. His writing also ascribes dignity and poetic beauty to the voice of the Jewish victim from Poland-Lithuania. In this essay, these observations about Sutzkever's writing are set in conversation with epistolary responses to the author from Soviet Jewish refugees.