Prague as the centre of Russian educational emigration: Czechoslovakia's educational policy for Russian emigrants (1918-1938)

• Autores: Irina Mchitarjan
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 45, Nº. 3, 2009, págs. 369-402
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article looks at the role played by the Czechoslovakian Republic in the establishment and maintenance of the �Russian education system in exile� in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. No other country supported the educational activities of the Russian emigrants as generously as Czechoslovakia. Thanks to this extensive and targeted support, a well-developed �Russian education system� came into being in Czechoslovakia, and Prague became the centre of Russian educational emigration in Europe. Czechoslovakia's support for the Russian emigrants had not only humanitarian reasons, but was to a large extent motivated by political and economic interests.