Russia in motion
Subtitle: cultures of human mobility since 1850
By: edited by John Randolph and Eugene M. Avrutin
Series: Studies of world migrations; Studies of world migrations
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252037030
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Government policy; Domicile; Internal Migration; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.