DOCUMENTS ON THE HISTORY OF MENSHEVIK EMIGRATION IN THE COLLECTION OF N. V. VALENTINOV IN THE LIBRARY OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTATION (NANTERRE, FRANCE)

Antoshin Aleksey Valerievich, Antoshin Valery Alekseevich

The article is devoted to sources on the history of the Menshevik emigration, stored in the Archives Department of the Library of Modern International Documentation (Nanterre, France). The authors focus on ego-documents presented in the personal archival fund of the famous social democrat N. V. Valentinov (Volsky). The article characterizes N. V. Valentinov's perception of the socio-economic and political development of France in the mid-20th century. The authors come to the conclusion that these documents contain valuable information about the ideological and political attitudes of the Menshevik emigration.

Keywords:Mensheviks, Russian emigres, N. V. Valentinov, Nanterre, France in the 1950s, Leon Blum, Charles de Gaulle.