Золото Колчака

Sudʹba "zolota Kolchaka" - chasti zolotogo zapasa Rossiĭskoĭ imperii, popavshego v ruki belykh v 1918 godu - odna iz samykh izvestnykh i volnui͡ushchikh zagadok russkoĭ istorii KhKh stoletii͡a. Na osnove materialov amerikanskikh, britanskikh i rossiĭskikh arkhivov istoriku Olegu Budnit͡skomu udalosʹ razreshitʹ ėtu zagadku i prosleditʹ dvizhenie vyruchennykh ot prodazhi zolota deneg, kotorye raskhodovalisʹ do kont͡sa 1950‑kh godov. Smysl podobnogo istoricheskogo "rassledovanii͡a" zakli͡uchaetsi͡a ne tolʹko v tom, chtoby postavitʹ tochku v zati͡anuvshikhsi͡a debatakh ob uchasti "zolota Kolchaka". Ėtot si͡uzhet sluzhit sterzhnem, na kotoryĭ "nanizany" problemy istorii Belogo dvizhenii͡a i ego zagranichnogo finansirovanii͡a, vzaimootnosheniĭ belykh i ikh soi͡uznikov, rossiĭskoĭ "diplomatii v izgnanii", russkoĭ ėmigrat͡sii i drugie. V konechnom schete ėto eshche odna popytka otvetitʹ na kli͡uchevoĭ vopros rossiĭskoĭ istorii KhKh veka: pochemu v Grazhdanskoĭ voĭne pobedili krasnye, a ne belye. Oleg Budnit͡skiĭ - doktor istoricheskikh nauk, professor, direktor Mezhdunarodnogo t͡sentra istorii i sot͡siologii Vtoroĭ mirovoĭ voĭny i ee posledstviĭ NIU VShĖ, chlen Evropeĭskoĭ akademii; spet͡sialist v oblasti rossiĭskoĭ istorii vtoroĭ poloviny XIX - XX vekov.

The fate of the Kolchak gold, a part of the gold reserve of the Russian Empire that fell into the hands of the Whites in 1918, is one of the most famous and exciting mysteries of Russian history of the twentieth century. Based on materials from American, British and Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitsky managed to solve this riddle and trace the movement of the money raised from the sale of gold, which was spent until the end of the 1950s. The meaning of such a historical "investigation" is not only to put an end to the protracted debate about the fate of the "Kolchak gold". This plot serves as a pivot on which the problems of the history of the White Movement and its foreign financing, the relationship between whites and their allies, Russian "diplomacy in exile", Russian emigration and others are "strung". Ultimately, this is another attempt to answer the key question of the Russian history of the twentieth century: why the Reds won the Civil War, and not the whites. Oleg Budnitsky — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the International Center for the History and Sociology of the Second World War and Its Consequences of the HSE, member of the European Academy; specialist in the field of Russian history of the second half of the XIX — XX centuries.