Final in China: The Emergence, Development, and Disappearance of the White Emigration in the Far East

Pyotr Petrovich Balakshin is among the White émigrés who could never forget their homeland, keeping a connection with its history and culture in their souls. During World War I, as an enthusiastic boy, he enrolled in a military school and after a brief three-month course went to the front as a junior lieutenant... The heavy trials on the Romanian front, then the revolution, the Treaty of Brest, the Civil War, emigration to Manchuria... After a few years, he managed to move to the USA, get an education, become a journalist and a writer, but his interest in the fates of the Russian Far Eastern emigration never left him. He painstakingly collected information about Russians who found themselves in Asian exile and dedicated a documentary study called "Final in China" to this topic, covering the period from the 1920s to the 1950s. This work, published in San Francisco in 1958, was considered by Balakshin to be the work of his life.