Зачем мы здесь? Первая русская эмиграция о себе (1920–1939)

'Zachem my zdesʹ? Pervai͡a russkai͡a ėmigrat͡sii͡a o sebe (1920-1939)' otkryvaet serii͡u, posvi͡ashchennui͡u ėmigrat͡sii kak istoricheskomu i antropologicheskomu opytu. V pervui͡u knigu serii voshla ėsseistika (publit͡sistika) mezhvoennogo perioda, kogda vopros, vynesennyĭ v zaglavie, stoi͡al dli͡a ėmigrantov pervoĭ volny naibolee ostro, a poiski otveta na nego zaviseli ot mnozhestva obstoi͡atelʹstv. Kakie prot͡sessy v Rossii i za granit͡seĭ opredeli͡ali politicheskie i khudozhestvennye zadachi pervoĭ volny? Pochemu na smenu 'Missii russkoĭ ėmigrat͡sii', provozglashennoĭ Buninym v 1924 godu, prikhodit osoznanie, chto kak 'gosudarstvo bez territorii' ėmigrat͡sii͡a ne sostoi͡alasʹ? Tolʹko li nadvigai͡ushchai͡asi͡a Vtorai͡a mirovai͡a voĭna zastavit I͡Urii͡a Rapoporta vozvestitʹ o 'Kont͡se Zarubezhʹi͡a' v 1939 godu? Na proti͡azhenii dvukh desi͡atiletiĭ raznye avtory ishchut otvet na vopros, vnovʹ stavshiĭ aktualʹnym cherez sto let. Chto soobshchaet nam ikh opyt segodni͡a?

'Why are we here? The first Russian emigration (1920-1939)'opens a series dedicated to emigration as a historical and anthropological experience. The first book in the series includes essays (journalism) of the interwar period, when the question posed in the title was most acute for the emigrants of the first wave, and the search for an answer to it depended on many circumstances. What processes in Russia and abroad determined the political and artistic objectives of the first wave? Why is the "Mission of Russian Emigration" proclaimed by Bunin in 1924 being replaced by the realization that emigration did not take place as a "state without a territory"? Is it only the impending World War II that will force Yuri Rapoport to announce the "End of the Diaspora" in 1939? For two decades, various authors have been searching for an answer to a question that has become relevant again after a hundred years. What does their experience tell us today?