A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia During World War I

Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies

by Peter Gatrell

During World War I millions of civilians on the eastern front, including Poles, Latvians, Jews, and Armenians as well as Russians and Ukrainians, were forcibly uprooted. This is the first book in any language to describe their experience and consider the social, political, and cultural meanings of refugeedom before and after the collapse of the tsarist empire.

Genres: History, Russia, World War I, Nonfiction, Russian History

318 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

A historian specializing in population displacement in the modern world and the economic and social history of Russia, Peter Gatrell is emeritus professor at the University of Manchester. He earned his undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge.

Reviews

[Diana Stevan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was pleased to find this book as it informed me about a chapter in my family's history. It made me think about the refugees everywhere, the ones who have their stories buries in the past, and the ones who have yet to write them.