Laboratory of national reconciliation. Review of the book: Bazanov P. N. Tsar and Soviets: Russian emigration in the struggle for Russian statehood: political and publishing activities. 2nd ed., rev. St. Petersburg: RKHGA Publ., 2022. 322 p

The publication deals with the second edition of the book by Pyotr Bazanov, dedicated to emigrant organizations that stood at the origins of the ideology of “National Bolshevism”: the Smenovekhites, the Young Russians and the post-revolutionaries. All of them were united by the rejection of white “activism” “with its irreconcilable, moral, ideological, propaganda and armed struggle against the communists”. The revolution was a fait accompli for this part of the emigration, and the Bolshevik regime, with all its shortcomings, was part of national history. As a general term for all the trends considered in the book, Bazanov proposes the term “ideocratic”, meaning by the “ruling idea” the slogan “The Tsar and the Soviets” in the title - which, in turn, is seen not as “surrender to Bolshevism”, but as continuation of the pre-revolutionary “antibureaucratic” trend of Russian conservatism. The attitude of the “pro-Soviet” emigration both to the conservative tradition and to the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century is analyzed. The monograph is based on a wide range of sources - first of all, materials from the emigrant periodicals - it unfolds before the reader a wide panorama of the ideological searches of a significant part of thinking Russian patriots, who unexpectedly got the opportunity, in relatively comfortable foreign conditions, to look at the tragedy of the Motherland from the outside - and did not want to stay on the sidelines.