Russian Migration to the United States

• Main Author: Berke, Obert
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: UND Scholarly Commons 1946
• Subjects: Bering Strait; Alaska
• Online Access: https://commons.und.edu/theses/443; https://commons.und.edu/context/theses/article/1442/viewcontent/Berke_1946.pdf

Interest In this topic, The Prussian Immigrant to the United States from 1790 to 1914, dates back to my childhood in a community in which the Russians made up three fourths of the population. Contact with the homesteaders and everyday political events of modern Russia has intensified this interest. This large country with Its variety of nationalities has added and Is adding color to our own political, Industrial, social, and religious life. Russia is destined to play a larger part in international politics than ever before. Our own nation will also find it necessary to play politics with the giant of Europe and Asia,The people of a democracy should make themselves acquainted with the nature of the people and the government of Russia because of this new Importance. This continent first felt the influence of Russia in Alaska over one-hundred-fifty years ago as the explorers and settlers from Russia proper spread across Asia, the Bering Strait, and to North America. Our government clashed with Russia over their penetration into the Oregon territory. In 1867 we purchased Alaska from Russia,In the Russo-Japanese war we built some ships for the Russian government and acted as mediator for Japan and Russia," In the World War I our contact was the last remnant of the Czarist regime. an immigrant saw the building of the ship Retvison (Rarevich) at Philadelphia and later read the account of the sinking of this ship during the Russo-Japanese war. In the second World War are dealt with a government which practiced collectivism which was in an experimental stage in the nineteenth century. Since 1917 we have looked critically at the Russian movement and its practices. This is mainly the result of differences in ideology between the two countries and the lack of information and understanding. The main purpose of this thesis is to add to the information that we have concerning Russia, and to stress the importance of this knowledge. The information for this thesis was gathered by correspondence, interviews, and from other ...