Patriotic memory of the Motherland of the Far Eastern White emigration in the 1920s– 1930s

Importance. Such a phenomenon as White emigration has not been thoroughly researched in Russian historiography. To substantiate the inconsistency of the dogma about the irreconcilability of class interests in matters of preserving a single Russian state, which gave rise to a tendentious selection of information about the white emigration in the Soviet period of history. To show a mosaic picture of our historical past and the perniciousness of the class assessment of a specific person. The purpose of the study is to identify the sentiments of the White emigration towards the policy of the Japanese government towards the Soviet state.Materials and Methods. The revealed documents from the Central Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Military Archive, and the State Archive of the Russian Federation, which are very different in origin, content, and nature, provide a fairly complete picture of the sentiments of White emigration in the Far East. The analysis of documents is based on a general civilizational approach, which pays great attention to socio-cultural phenomena and the subjective factor in the study of a specific historical situation.Results and Discussion. A significant part of the White emigration had a negative attitude towards the plans to unleash a war against the USSR and the seizure of Soviet territories by Japan. The failure of the Japanese special services to involve broad sections of the White emigration in a large-scale war against the USSR can serve as evidence of this conclusion.Conclusion. The revealed archival documents show the unbroken inner core of patriotism of White emigration’s significant part in the Far East towards the policy pursued by Japan towards the Soviet state. The White emigration did not want either territorial concessions to Japan or the economic weakening of Russia.

White Emigration, Far East, patriotism, China, Japan, terrorism