1st Edition

Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past

Edited By Róisín Healy Copyright 2019
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of the journey as a key motor of human development in Russia, central and east Europe in the modern period. It does so by means of twelve case studies that examine different types of movement, both voluntary and involuntary, temporary and permanent, short- and long-distance, into, out of, and around the region.



    List of Figures



    Notes on Contributors



    Acknowledgements





     









    1. From travel to mobility: Perspectives on Journeys in the Russian, Central and East European Past





    2. Róisín Healy





      Section One: Journeys Into and Around Russia





    3. The Threshold of Siberia: Tracing Migrants’ Journeys in Perm Province during the Long Nineteenth Century




    4. Jonathan Rowson







    5. Travel to Siberian Exile, 1905-1917




    6. Sarah Badcock







    7. Alone in the Steppes: Carla Serena in the Peripheries of the Russian Empire




    8. Daniele Artoni







    9. The Cold War Gaze before and after 1991: Reflections on Selected Travellers’ Accounts of the Soviet Union and Russia since 1956




    10. Christopher Read







      Section Two: Journeys Out Of Russia





    11. Escaping Russian Serfdom: Peasant Flight to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century




    12. Andrey Gornostaev







    13. Conquest Journeys and their Legacies: Aleksandr Suvorov in Russia and Transnistria




    14. Ángel Luis Torres Adán







    15. A Struggle across the Iron Curtain. Soviet Dissidents in Exile in the 1970s




    16. Barbara Martin







    17. Okno v prostor: Konstantin Balmont in Japan




    18. Martina Morabito





       



      Section Three: Journeys by Eastern and Central Europeans





    19. Modernist Empire: Hermann Bahr’s Journey to Dalmatia




    20. Andreas Agocs







    21. Rákosi’s Travels: A Hungarian Communist’s Journey to the West




    22. Balázs Apor









    23. Exile and champion of the disabled: Dorina Ilieva-Simpson's journey from Bulgaria to Mauritius





    24. Snezhana Dimitrova







    25. Journeys as Grief Work: German Expellees and "Homesick Tourism" in Poland (1945-1989)




              Agnieszka Pufelska





     



    Index

    Biography

    Róisín Healy is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the National University of Ireland Galway.