THE ANTI-BOLSHEVIK RUSSIAN EMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES: REVISITING THE SPECIFICS OF THE DIASPORA
This article reveals two important aspects of the Anti-Bolshevik Russian Emigration history, its reasons and specific development in the United States. The author has analyzed different data concerning significant inflow of Russian emigrants to America after 1917 and after 1945. Among the exodus reasons of the Anti- Bolshevik movement participants to the USA the author identifies the geographical factor (relative proximity to the Russian Far East), the political factor (the liberal emigration policy) and the ideological factor (the myth about the USA as a country with equal opportunities for everyone). The author notes the following specifics of the Russian Diaspora in the USA in the 1920-1950s. The first wave of the Anti-Bolshevik emigration to the United States started in the early 1920s after the Civil War. The next wave was after the Second World War. The bulk of Russian immigrants was concentrated around two major centers: New York (on the East Coast) and San Francisco (on the West Coast). The social adaptation and integration of Russian emigrants in the USA took place much more easily than in European and Asian countries, although the Russian Diaspora there disappeared earlier.