Governing mobility / 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 -- Social horizons / 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 post-Soviet Russia / by Elena Tyuryukanova -- Model mobility / 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.
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.
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