Seminare

Virtual (Re)Unification? Diasporic Culture(s) and Their Representations on the Russian Internet
Presentation by Henrike Schmidt and Katy Teubener

Diaspora, Internet and Value Conflicts - An Introduction
Russian Diaspora - Historical Lines and Concepts
Russian Internet - Definitions and Statistics
"Zagranica" / "Abroad" - A Digitale Diaspora?
A.L.F. - Website Analysis
Ubiquity? Conclusions / Hypothesis
Russian Diaspora - Historical Lines and Concepts

Old Diaspora:

Emigration from end of 19th century up till today mostly to Western countries (USA, Israel, Germany, France, Kanada, Finland)

New Diaspora:

Russian / Russian-speaking "minorities" in the Successor States of the Soviet Union

Total 20 Millions

Baltic States: from approx. 7 (Lithuania) to 30 % of population (Latvia, Estland)
Ukraine: approx. 22 % of population
Central Asia: from 3,2% (Tadschikistan) to 37 % of population (Kazachstan)
Trans Caucasian States: from approx. 2 (Armenia) - 6 % (Aserbaidshan, Georgia) of population
"Conceptual Label"
Period
Reason
Number
Characteristics
White emigration
1917-1935
Communist Revolution / Civil war
3,5 - 4 Million

"Mission" - Free, non-communist Russia; high acceptance abroad
Silent emigration 1945-1950 Second World War / Soviet repression 8 - 10 Million
No mission; Trauma of double repression; seen in Soviet Russia as spys and traitors; no well-known representatives
Intellectual / Ethnical /Political 1870-1985 Period of Stagnation; Cold War; Anti-Semitism 1 Million
Personal and political protest; martyrs for freedom and victims of Soviet regime; intellectual potential; high acceptance abroad
"Sausage" or
economical emigration		 1985 - today (Post)perestroika; Transformation period; political and economical crisis 1 - 2 Million
No mission; personal motivation; lack of status abroad; Problematics of (self)definition, negative attitude towards home-country
Please note that neither the "Conceptual labels" nor the characteristics represent objective historical facts but refer to widely spread interpretation patterns in Russian collective memory. The statistical data gives approximate numbers and shall give an orientation rather than a detailed insight.

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