Во имя нигилизма. Американское общество друзей русской свободы и русская революционная эмиграция (1890-1930 гг.)

Finally, there was a little-known attempt to reanimate the Society in the USA in 1930. This was connected with the émigré activity of Viktor Chernov, the leader of the SR Party before the October Revolution. In emigration, Chernov lost his political authority, despite trying unsuccessfully to restore his power during the 1920s. His trip to America was a desperate attempt to enlist new supporters and restore the party’s power. His supporters in California raised the issue of the Society’s resurrection and even tried to reform it in Spring 1930, in San Francisco. But this Society did not remain in existence for long and the overall outcome of this undertaking was insignificant. Given the sharp division of political émigrés into different ideological groups and the American lack of interest in the cause of Russia’s “liberation” from the Communists, the idea of recreating the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom proved completely unviable.