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Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the "other." From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.


Introduction / Anika Walke
Part I: Ways of Moving
1. Paris—St. Petersburg: Shrinking Spaces in the Nineteenth Century / Jan Musekamp
2. "A main station at one's front door": Bicycles, Automobiles, and Early Adapters' Dreams of Personal Mobility in Poland, 1885-1939 / Nathan Wood
3. Walking with a Tolstoyan Dancer: Physical and Psychic Mobility in Vaslav Nijinsky's Diary / Nicole Svobodny
4. Russian Resorts and European Leisure: Railroad Vacations, "Native" Sites, and the Making of a Russian (Post)Colonial Identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s / Chia Yin Hsu
Part II: People in Motion
5. Dynamic Bohemians: The Russian Artistic Circle in Paris (Russkii Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe) / Anna Winestein
6. Sex at the Border: Trafficking as a Migration Problem in Partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted
7. Evacuation as Migration: The Soviet Experience during the Great Patriotic War / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch
8. Far from Home: Soviet and Non-Soviet Railway Workers' Experiences during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984 / Christopher J. Ward
Part III: Narratives of Migration
9. Traumatic Mobility: Motivating Collective Authorship in Siberian Narratives of Polish Exiles from the Inter-revolutionary Epoch (1832-62) / Elizabeth Blake
10. Technology, the City, and the Body: Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin / Harriet Murav
11. Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter / George Gasyna
12. Journeys of Identity: From Soviet Jew to German Writer / Adrian Wanner

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MIGRATION AND MOBILITY IN THE MODERN AGE
Migration and Mobility in the
MODERN AGE

Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia
Edited by ANIKA WALKE, JAN MUSEKAMP , and NICOLE SVOBODNY
This book is a publication of
Indiana University Press
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Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
iupress.indiana.edu
2017 by Indiana University Press
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No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.
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Manufactured in the United States of America
Cataloging information is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-0-253-02476-3 (cloth)
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Anika Walke would like to dedicate this book to the memory of Ingrid Oswald .
Jan Musekamp dedicates this book to the memory of Helga Schultz .
Nicole Svobodny would like to dedicate this book to the memory of Virgil Svobodny .
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Anika Walke
Part I. Locomotions: Ways of Moving
1 Paris-St. Petersburg: Shrinking Spaces in the Nineteenth Century. Jan Musekamp
2 A Main Station at One s Front Door : Bicycles, Automobiles, and Early Adopters Dreams of Personal Mobility in Poland, 1885-1939. Nathaniel D. Wood
3 Walking with a Tolstoyan Dancer: Physical and Psychic Mobility in Vaslav Nijinsky s Diary. Nicole Svobodny
4 Russian Resorts and European Leisure: Railroad Vacations, Native Sites, and the Making of a Russian (Post) Colonial Identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s. Chia Yin Hsu
Part II. Migrations: People in Motion
5 Dynamic Bohemians: The Russian Artistic Circle in Paris (Russkii Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe ). Anna Winestein
6 Sex at the Border: Trafficking as a Migration Problem in Partitioned Poland. Keely Stauter-Halsted
7 Evacuation as Migration: The Soviet Experience during the Great Patriotic War. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch
8 Far from Home: Soviet and Non-Soviet Railway Workers Experiences during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984. Christopher J. Ward
Part III. Narrations: Literatures of Migration and Mobility
9 Traumatic Mobility: Motivating Collective Authorship in Siberian Narratives of Polish Exiles from the Inter-revolutionary Epoch (1832-1862). Elizabeth Blake
10 Technology, the City, and the Body: Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin. Harriet Murav
11 Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter . George Gasyna
12 Journeys of Identity: From Soviet Jew to German Writer. Adrian Wanner
Contributors
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE EDITORS WOULD like to thank the authors for their excellent work and steadfast commitment to this publication. We are grateful for your generosity, encouragement, and patience as we completed the book.
The International and Area Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis, in particular the Migration, Identity, and State research collective and the Eurasian Studies concentration provided crucial financial support. We owe heartfelt thanks to Timothy Parsons, Kathy Daniel, and Toni Loomis of IAS who, each in their own way, made possible what seemed impossible at times.
We express our gratitude to the Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover, Germany), which supported this project from its very inception till the very end.
Two anonymous reviewers offered helpful critique in bringing the volume to completion, and we thank them for their time and effort.
Raina Polivka, Janice Frisch, and Daniel Miller at Indiana University Press were a pleasure to work with, and we are grateful for their unwavering support. Charlie Clark deserves a big thank-you for shepherding the book through the final production stage. We are indebted to our copy editor, Amy Schneider, for her excellent work.
MIGRATION AND MOBILITY IN THE MODERN AGE
I NTRODUCTION
Anika Walke
SINCE THE FALL of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s, the movement of people is a central topic of concern, among the citizenry, among politicians, and among scholars in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union. The intense debate about people s ability to move and the transfer of goods and ideas and about ways to deal with unregulated migration reflects a complex web of movements and their assigned meanings. Recent scholarship on the movement of people in this region largely uses and expands on sociological and political science frameworks, focusing on pressing problems of integration and security, and striving to provide background for strategic policy making. 1 But there is a lack of historical depth to these accounts, as a scholar recently noted: migration is presented as something new and unprecedented. 2 A look into the past reveals both continuous and changing patterns of migration and can thereby help alleviate the panic at supposedly threatening waves of migration that, in fact, only continue a regular pattern of human behavior. 3 Migration is at the center of cultural and social developments and representations and has helped forge global and local interaction and interrelations over long periods. 4 Imaginations of sedentism as the norm, either in the past or in the present, are seriously flawed; as Leslie Page Moch writes, People were on the move, and where and why they traveled tells us a good bit about the past and about the pressures and processes that produced the world with which we are familiar. 5 What Moch powerfully demonstrates for Western Europe is true for the central and eastern parts of the continent and Russia as well. The historical and cultural analyses presented in this volume show that realities and imaginations of movement have determined the lives of individuals and communities in the region in complex and highly instructive ways for centuries.
This volume provides a fresh look at the landmass of and people originating from the area between the westernmost borders of present-day Poland; the former Hapsburg Lands, including the current Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, and Slovenia; the Balkan Peninsula; and the territory that once constituted the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union. Studying the mobility and migrations of people, including train passengers, bicyclists, tourists, worker delegates, exiles and deportees, female sex workers, writers, dancers, artists, and others, chapters turn their gaze toward France, Germany, Switzerland, China, and North America as well. The focus of all studies, however, remains the impact of migration and mobility on the societies in CEE and Russia.
Many studies exist on the mutual relationship between population movements and social, political, economic, and cultural processes, yet this region is largely absent in these studies; only a few recent volumes are beginning to fill the gap. 6 The regional and temporal focus of this collection thus expands the reach of migration and mobility studies that, for a long time, have not taken full advantage of examining the rich historical and cultural dynamics of this region. Tracing the development of means of transportation and the relationships they facilitated, or artists work as a result of human movement, helps us better understand modernization, state formation, and individual and popular imaginations of self and other in a part of the world that has repeatedly been at the center of globally significant developments. Analyzing how workers experienced encounters with representatives of the Western world, or how exiles described unfamiliar landscapes, one learns how identities and aspirations were defined in an area that has likely seen more border redrawings and state formations in the past two hundred years than any other region of the world.
Why distinguish migration and mobility , two concepts that are seemingly synonymous? Migration is typically understood to mean a move across a specified border or boundary from one location to another, usually with the aim of redefining one s main place of residence. Borders include those between urban and rural spaces, states, countries, or continents; thus, some migrations are internal (i.e., the migrant remains within the confines of a state), while others have an international dimension. Within these movements, scholars distinguish between unidirectional and multidirectional, temporary and long-term, labor and educational, voluntary and forced, and settlement and return migrations-accounts of nearly all of these appear in the chapters of this book.
We have specified mobility as a subject of interest in its own right, because the ability to move is a precondition for people s travels and cultural change, and it determines their scale and extent. 7 When Eastern European states closed their borders and thus restricted their citizens physical movement to a closely monitored and circumscribed space, they also limited social and cultural interactions and hoped to prevent the free flow of people as much as of ideas and goods. 8 Expanding the view to mobility, thus, integrates analyses of large-scale movements of people, objects, capital and information . . . as well as the more local processes

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