Russkai︠a︡ Emigrat︠s︡ii︠a︡ v Severnoĭ i I︠u︡z︠h︡noĭ Amerike
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This is a reprint of a rare book by Ivan Okuntsov, published in Buinos Aires in 1967. Ivan Okuntsov was the Trans-Baikal Cossack, writer, journalist, emigrant of the first wave Ivan Kuzmich Okuntsov (1874-1939). In 1905 he was sentenced first to death, then to life imprisonment, and fled through Japan to the United States. In 1910 he founded the first daily Russian newspaper in the United States, Russkoy Slovo (New York); returned to Russia in 1917, but opposed the Bolsheviks and fled again in 1922 to the United States. Okuntsov's book is the most important, practically the only reference book on the Russian emigration in both Americas in the 19th - first third of the 20th century, contains information about dozens of organizations, societies, publishing houses, newspapers, etc. Valuable historical material.
