Helen Rappaport

Helen Rappaport is the author of ‘After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars’, to be published by Scribe on 13 October 2022.

Russia, Ukraine and the forgotten exiles of the 1920s

From our UK edition

At the end of 1920, a mass exodus of Russians from their homeland after the Russian civil war created a humanitarian catastrophe. ‘Never in the history of Europe has a political cataclysm torn such huge numbers of people from their mother country and their homes’ remarked émigré journalist Ariadna Tyrkova Willams. In the West there