Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past

Róisín Healy is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the National University of Ireland Galway.

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From travel to mobility: Perspectives on Journeys in the Russian, Central and East European Past


Róisín Healy

Section One: Journeys Into and Around Russia




The Threshold of Siberia: Tracing Migrants’ Journeys in Perm Province during the Long Nineteenth Century
Jonathan Rowson




Travel to Siberian Exile, 1905-1917
Sarah Badcock




Alone in the Steppes: Carla Serena in the Peripheries of the Russian Empire
Daniele Artoni




The Cold War Gaze before and after 1991: Reflections on Selected Travellers’ Accounts of the Soviet Union and Russia since 1956
Christopher Read

Section Two: Journeys Out Of Russia




Escaping Russian Serfdom: Peasant Flight to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century
Andrey Gornostaev




Conquest Journeys and their Legacies: Aleksandr Suvorov in Russia and Transnistria
Ángel Luis Torres Adán




A Struggle across the Iron Curtain. Soviet Dissidents in Exile in the 1970s
Barbara Martin




Okno v prostor: Konstantin Balmont in Japan
Martina Morabito



Section Three: Journeys by Eastern and Central Europeans




Modernist Empire: Hermann Bahr’s Journey to Dalmatia
Andreas Agocs




Rákosi’s Travels: A Hungarian Communist’s Journey to the West
Balázs Apor




Exile and champion of the disabled: Dorina Ilieva-Simpson's journey from Bulgaria to Mauritius


Snezhana Dimitrova




Journeys as Grief Work: German Expellees and "Homesick Tourism" in Poland (1945-1989)

Agnieszka Pufelska

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