the one nine hundred twenty s. the russian revolution and the armenian genocide led to millions of people being forced to leave their homelands to make it impossible for them to return their respective rulers revoked their citizenship on matters. jurists introduced the term stateless to describe people who had been driven into permanent exile. writer vladimir noble cause for himself one of those affected said it was as if they had dropped off the face of the planet over two million people mainly russians and armenians were brutally uprooted and forced to begin a new life elsewhere they dispersed for the four corners of the earth.