Description
Effect of revolution on soldiers, 1917; White Army staff, 1918; retreat to Vladivostok; Shanghai emigré life, 1922-1930s: organizing the Russian community politically and culturally; dissatisfactions, White struggles against the Bolsheviks, Stalinist purges; Shanghai during WWII: Japanese occupation and pressure to collaborate, emigré association and first attempts to emigrate; Tubabao refugee camp: contact with Senator William Knowland and the San Francisco Russian colony.