Eugene M. Kulischer
Eugene Mikhailovich Kulischer was a Russian-American sociologist; an authority on demography, migration and manpower; and an expert on Russia. He also coined the phrase "displaced persons" and was among the first to seek to document the number of persons murdered in the Holocaust and the subsequent migrations of millions of Europeans after World War II.
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- Born in
- Kyiv
- Educated at
- Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University
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Trending topics shown first"The migratory movement is at once perpetual, partial and universal. It never ceases, it affects every people … at a given moment it sets in motion only a small number of each population … in fact ther…"
"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 eco…"
"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."
"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 an…"
"War is a mass phenomenon. To penetrate the basic causes of war, we must discern the factors which have made millions of people abandon their habitual modes of life, their occupations, and their moral …"
"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 threa…"
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1881
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Birth1956
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