1st Edition
Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past
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
From travel to mobility: Perspectives on Journeys in the Russian, Central and East European Past
- The Threshold of Siberia: Tracing Migrants’ Journeys in Perm Province during the Long Nineteenth Century
- Travel to Siberian Exile, 1905-1917
- Alone in the Steppes: Carla Serena in the Peripheries of the Russian Empire
- The Cold War Gaze before and after 1991: Reflections on Selected Travellers’ Accounts of the Soviet Union and Russia since 1956
- Escaping Russian Serfdom: Peasant Flight to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century
- Conquest Journeys and their Legacies: Aleksandr Suvorov in Russia and Transnistria
- A Struggle across the Iron Curtain. Soviet Dissidents in Exile in the 1970s
- Okno v prostor: Konstantin Balmont in Japan
- Modernist Empire: Hermann Bahr’s Journey to Dalmatia
- Rákosi’s Travels: A Hungarian Communist’s Journey to the West
Exile and champion of the disabled: Dorina Ilieva-Simpson's journey from Bulgaria to Mauritius
- Journeys as Grief Work: German Expellees and "Homesick Tourism" in Poland (1945-1989)
Róisín Healy
Section One: Journeys Into and Around Russia
Jonathan Rowson
Sarah Badcock
Daniele Artoni
Christopher Read
Section Two: Journeys Out Of Russia
Andrey Gornostaev
Ángel Luis Torres Adán
Barbara Martin
Martina Morabito
Section Three: Journeys by Eastern and Central Europeans
Andreas Agocs
Balázs Apor
Snezhana Dimitrova
Agnieszka Pufelska
Index
Biography
Róisín Healy is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the National University of Ireland Galway.