Elena Nikolaevna Nazemtseva,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Military History Institute of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
“Intercepted Fates”: Correspondence of Russian Emigrants in the Funds of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-1-6
The publication introduces into scientific circulation a complex of materials from the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of Russia on the correspondence of Russian emigrants in China with their relatives and acquaintances in the USSR. Among the submitted documents are letters from emigrants and their relatives in the USSR, instructions from the Foreign Department of the United Main Political Directorate on perusal of letters, investigation of cases related to the transfer of letters to the USSR and China, illegal crossing of the Soviet-Chinese border, establishing control over the relatives of emigrants. The documents reflect in detail the features of life both in the USSR and in China. Of particular interest is information about the perception by emigrants of their new life away from their homeland, the culture of China, as well as documents revealing the perception of emigrants' relatives of the features of the Soviet system.
Publishing: 28/02/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 27.11.2021
How to cite: Nazemtseva E.N. “Intercepted Fates”: Correspondence of Russian Emigrants in the Funds of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 1 (21), pp. 55–71. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-1-06.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2022
Keywords: China, USSR, Russian emigration, perusal, INO OGPU (Foreign Department of the United Main Political Directorate)