Research Catalog

Title

Russia in motion : cultures of human mobility since 1850 / edited by John Randolph and Eugene M. Avrutin.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Randolph, John, 1967-
• Avrutin, Eugene M.

Description

287 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Since its rapid imperial expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia's politics, society, and culture have exerted a profound influence on movement throughout Eurasia. The circulation of people, information, and things across Russian space transformed populations, restructured collective and individual identities, and created enduring legacies. This volume represents the latest discoveries of scholars attempting to rediscover this experience, and to understand its lasting meaning for today. These gathered essays tell a broad range of stories, involving a remarkable cross-section of historical actors: imperial visionaries, stage-coach entrepreneurs, religious pilgrims, tourists, disability activists, and metropolitan police, among others. The book illuminates three major themes: the role of human mobility in Russian governance; the processes by which people decide where and how to move; and the political and cultural power of different kinds of movement."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Studies of world migrations

Uniform Title

Studies of world migrations.

Subjects

• Migration, Internal > Government policy > Soviet Union
• Domicile > Russia > History
• Migration, Internal > Russia (Federation)
• Migration, Internal > Soviet Union > History
• Domicile > Soviet Union > History
• Domicile > Russia (Federation)
• Migration, Internal > Russia > History
• Migration, Internal > Government policy > Russia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Governing mobility: rethinking Russian attempts to manage Eurasian movement / preface by Charles Steinwedel. Human mobility, imperial governance, and political conflict in pre-revolutionary Kiev / by Faith Hillis ; Frontier urban and imperial dreams: the Chinese Eastern Railroad and the creation of a Russian global city, 1890s-1917 / by Chia Yin Hsu ; The origins of Soviet internal migration policy: industrialization and the 1930s rural exodus / by Gijs Kessler ; Migration controls in Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow: from 'closed city' to 'illegal city'"/ by Matthew Light -- Setting social horizons: mobility, migration and community / preface by Willard Sunderland. Odessa as a hajj hub, 1880s-1910s / by Eileen Kane ; Russians as colonists at the empire's Asian borders: optimistic prognoses and pessimistic assessments / by Anatolii Remnev ; Druzhba narodov or second class citizenship?: Soviet Asian migrants in a post-colonial world / by Jeff Sahadeo ; "Job wanted! (no) relocation, please!": barriers to geographical mobility in 1990s Russia / by Elena Tyuryukanova -- Model mobility: modes of movement and agency / preface by Anne Lounsbery. The making of passengers in the Russian empire : coach transport companies, guidebooks, and national identity in Russia, 1820-1860s / by Alexandra Bekasova ; "This new means of transportation will make unstable people even more unstable": railways and geographical mobility in tsarist Russia / by Frithjof Benjamin Schenk ; Pleasure travel in the passport state / by Diane P. Koenker ; Citizenship and human mobility: disability and the "etalization" of Soviet and post-Soviet space / by Sarah D. Phillips.

Call Number

JBE 13-511

ISBN

• 9780252037030 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 0252037030 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2011045146

OCLC

YBP 2011045146

Title

Russia in motion : cultures of human mobility since 1850 / edited by John Randolph and Eugene M. Avrutin.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of world migrations

Studies of world migrations.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Randolph, John, 1967- editor.

Avrutin, Eugene M., editor.

Research Call Number

JBE 13-511