“Volk aut dem Weg’: Transnational migration of the Russian-Germans from 1763 to present day”

Abstract

This article traces the migration patterns of the Russian-Germans across international borders from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire starting in 1763 up to the present day. In particular it analyses the reasons behind these migration flows. Both push and pull factors motivated the immigration of ethnic Germans into the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A similarly complex combination of factions spurred the various waves of emigration by Russian-Germans out of this territory during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article seeks to illustrate the primary courses of these migration flows.