Eugene M. Kulischer

Quotes

• “In the course of history the refugee was the first peaceful immigrant. In a social structure offering no place for a stranger, the unfortunate who had" taken the flight and so evaded death and black fate" at the hands of his enemies was sheltered under the sacred law of hospitality, since he came "as a fugative and a suppliant".”
• “The question of the size of the postwar population of the Soviet Union is not the least of the enigmas which have been baffling students of Russian affairs. Hardly any estimate or evaluation of an economic, sociological or military character for the U.S.S.R. can be made meaningful without an accurate knowledge of the demographic base.”
• “From time immemorial war has always caused widespread displacements of population. Driven abroad by the destruction of their homes, fleeing from the neighbourhood of the battlefields or from the threat of enemy occupation, floods of refugees have always taken to the roads in search of a haven which is never easy to find.”
• “"Ethnic Germans were transferred into Germany, mainly from eastern Europe; it has been estimated that approximately 600,000 persons had been transferred into the German Reich by the spring of 1942."”
• “The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms.”
• “Today a host of foreigners unprecedented in number and unparalleled in character is living and working in Germary like a gigantic pump, the new German Reich is sucking in all it resources of Europe and masses of Europe's working population.”

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Key dates

Born

4 September 1881

Died

2 April 1956

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Yevgeny

Gender

male

Citizenship

Soviet Union

Place of birth

Kyiv

Place of death

Washington, D.C.

Father

Michael Kulischer

Occupation

sociologist

Educated at

Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University

Political party

Constitutional Democratic Party

Languages spoken

English language

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