ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|14 pages
From travel to mobility
part I|54 pages
Journeys into and around Russia
chapter 2|15 pages
The threshold of Siberia
chapter 5|12 pages
The Cold War gaze before and after 1991
part II|54 pages
Journeys out of Russia
chapter 6|12 pages
Escaping Russian serfdom
part III|51 pages
Journeys by Eastern and Central Europeans