Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I Governing Mobility
Preface Charles Steinwedel 19
1 Human Mobility, Imperial Governance, and Political Conflict in Pre-Revolutionary Kiev Faith Hillis 25
2 Frontier Urban and Imperial Dreams: The Chinese Eastern Railroad and the Creation of a Russian Global City, 1890-1917 Chia Yin Hsu 43
3 The Origins of Soviet Internal-Migration Policy: Industrialization and the 1930s Rural Exodus Gijs Kessler 63
4 Migration Controls in Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow: From "Closed City" to "Illegal City" Matthew Light 80
Part II Social Horizons
Preface Willdrd Sunderland 101
5 Odessa as a Hajj Hub, 1880S-1910S Eileen Kane 107
6 Russians as Colonists at the Empires Asian Borders: Optimistic Prognoses and Pessimistic Assessments Anatolyi Remnev 126
7 Druzhba Narodov or Second-Class Citizenship? Soviet Asian Migrants in a Postcolonial World Jeff Sahadeo 150
8 "Job Wanted! (No) Relocation, Please!": Barriers to Geographical Mobility in Post-Soviet Russia Elena Tyuryukanova 172
Part III Model Mobility
Preface Anne Lounsbery 191
9 The Making of Passengers in the Russian Empire: Coach-Transport Companies, Guidebooks, and National Identity in Russia, 1820-1860 Alexandra Bekasova 199
10 "This New Means of Transportation Will Make Unstable People Even More Unstable": Railways and Geographical Mobility in Tsarist Russia Frithjof Benjamin Schenk 218
11 Pleasure Travel in the Passport State Diane P. Koenker 235
12 Citizenship and Human Mobility: Disability and the "Etatization" of Soviet and Post-Soviet Space Sarah D. Phillips 253
List of Contributors 273
Index 275