scholarly journals Eastern Europe Abroad: Exploring Actor-Networks in Transnational Movements and Migration History, The Case of the Bund

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Network Formation ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
And Migration

SummaryThe “transnational turn” is one of the most discussed topics in historiography, yet it has inspired more theoretical tension than empirically saturated studies. This article combines both aspects by examining the transnational network formation of one of the most important social movements in late imperial Russia, the Jewish Labour Bund. It furthermore introduces into historiography one of the most fruitful theories in recent social sciences, “actor-network theory”. This opens the view on the steady recreation of a social movement and reveals how closely the history of the Bund in eastern Europe was interwoven with large socialist organizations in the New World. Based on a large number of sources, this contribution to migration and movement history captures the creation and the limits of global socialist networks. As a result, it shows that globalization did not only create economic or political networks but that it impacted the everyday lives of authors and journalists as well as those of tailors and shoemakers.

NEW SCIENTIFIC WORKS ON THE MODERN BELARUSIAN AND POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF THE LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET STATE

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Oksana Babenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Red Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Military

The review presents new publications on the Belarusian and the Polish historiographies of the history of the late Imperial Russia and the Soviet State. Such problems as the number and conditions of detention of foreign prisoners of war in the Belarusian territories of the Russian Empire during the First World War, the influence of the military conflicts of 1914-1921 on the identity of the inhabitants of the Belarusian lands, the initial stage of the formation of academic science in the BSSR, the question of the «invasion» of Poland by the Red Army in September 1939 are highlighted.

Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia since the End of Communism

2013 ◽  
pp. 424-462
Author(s):  
Antony Polonsky
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
New Period ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent States

This chapter highlights how the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union initiated a new period in the history of the Jews in the area. Poland was now a fully sovereign country, and Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Moldova also became independent states. Post-imperial Russia faced the task of creating a new form of national identity. This was to prove more difficult than in other post-imperial states since, unlike Britain and France, the tsarist empire and its successor, the Soviet Union, had not so much been the ruler of a colonial empire as an empire itself. All of these countries now embarked, with differing degrees of enthusiasm, on the difficult task of creating liberal democratic states with market economies. For the Jews of the area, the new political situation allowed both the creation and development of Jewish institutions and the fostering of Jewish cultural life in much freer conditions, but also facilitated emigration to Israel, North America, and western Europe on a much larger scale.

Subsidence, maturation and migration history of the Tampen Spur area

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Moretti ◽  
Kenneth Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Migration History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Migration

Between Arcadia and Suburbia: Dachas in Late Imperial Russia

Slavic Review ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Country Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Middle Strata ◽  
Urban Civilization

In the last few prerevolutionary decades, dachas (summer houses) became an amenity accessible to wide sections of the population of Russia’s two main cities. Dachas offered middle-income urbanites unprecedented scope to free themselves from the workplace, cultivate new lifestyles, and create new communities and subcultures. Dachas thus constitute an important element in the history of late imperial leisure, entertainment, consumption, everyday life, and urban development. They also illustrate the complexity and hybridity of urban culture in this period. The dacha public was diverse in its tastes and sociocultural allegiances; it blended the intelligentsia’s commitment to the simple country life with a more “petit bourgeois” interest in diversion and domestic comfort. As an isolated bridgehead of urban civilization in an undercivilized rural hinterland, the dacha provides an important focus for discussing the middle strata of Moscow and St. Petersburg. If the tag “middle-class” could be applied to anyone in late imperial Russia, it was to the dachniki.

scholarly journals Evolution and migration history of the Chinese population inferred from Chinese Y-chromosome evidence

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 339-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Deng ◽  
Baochen Shi ◽  
Xiaoli He ◽  
Zhihua Zhang ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Y Chromosome ◽  
Chinese Population ◽  
Migration History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Migration

Looking in Stereo: School Photography, Interracial Intimacy, and the Pulse of the Archive

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Attewell
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Migration ◽  
History Of Race

This article examines the visual genre of the school photograph in order to reflect on the promise of transcolonial methodologies for thinking about the history of race and belonging in Canada. It focuses on four photographs of schoolchildren taken at around the same time in a range of locations across the British Empire. All feature Chinese children in close proximity to black, South Asian, or white peers. Seeking to understand how the photographs resonate with one another as representations of encounters between Asian and other racialized child subjects—divisions of class, location, and migration history notwithstanding—I develop a transcolonial methodology that is attentive to the (counter)institutional workings of rhythm and repetition as engines of community formation. Such a practice, I suggest, allows for rhythms to emerge that resist alignment with the pedagogical dictates of national time, as exemplified by national celebrations of Canada 150.

scholarly journals CHARTERS OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS IN PREREVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
Anastasiya S. Tumanova ◽  
Alexander A. Safonov
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
The State ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
External Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Corporate Legislation

The article deals with the history of doctrinal formation of the content of the charter of voluntary association of Late Imperial Russia, as well as the role of the charter in regulating the phenomenon of social self-organization. This problem is practically don't studied in the scientific literature. It is based on the involvement of a broad corpus of published sources (constituent documents of public organizations, materials of clerical work of public institutions, etc.) and archives (documents of the RGIA). The legal policy of the Russian government aimed at establishing uniformity in the content of constituent documents of voluntary societies and the principles of their relationship with the state according to the creation, re-registration, termination of societies is analyzed. This national framework is assessed from the standpoint of the content of corporate regulation in Late Imperial Russia, the degree of intervention of the state in this process. Russian and European sources for the formation of corporate legislation on voluntary associations are considered. The analysis of constituent documents of various groups of organizations in prerevolutionary Russia takes a significant place. They are studied according to the content, structure, general and special features, field of activity. The authors investigate how independent creativity of the founders was expressed when drawing up the charters of organizations that do not fully comply with typical constituent documents, find out its meaning and boundaries. The authors come to the conclusion that the charters gave Russian associations substantial autonomy in the inner life (defining goals and objectives, methods of capital formation, requirements for categories of members, etc.), but rather strictly prescribed the “external” context of their functioning, coupled with the interaction with state authorities.

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