ABSTRACT
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states in its place, like the collapse of the Russian Empire in the heat of the Great War seventy years earlier, have provoked another great movement of peoples. Millions of former Soviet citizens, mostly but not only ethnic Russians, suddenly found themselves living in a “foreign” land, and sought to return “home.” 1 From Lithuania alone, tens of thousands emigrated to Russia in the 1990s.
