Russia in Motion: Cultures of Human Mobility Since 1850 - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0252037030 ISBN 13 : 9780252037030

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2012

Synopsis

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. A strong contribution to our understanding of the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, this volume offers new models of research for historians, sociologists, political scientists, and others who are seeking to integrate the study of human mobility into their work. Contributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Randolph is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eugene M. Avrutin is an assistant professor of modern European Jewish history and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252037030
• ISBN 13: 9780252037030
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 287
• Éditeur: Randolph John, Avrutin Eugene M.
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