John Randolph is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eugene M. Avrutin is an assistant professor of modern European Jewish history and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Highly recommended. Randolph and Avrutin have done much to place mobility into the mainstream of Russian historiography."--The Russian Review “An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia "A meritorious contribution."--Journal of Transport History "This is an absorbing collection of essays that will repay reading by historians and social scientists. . . . A good introduction to the latest scholarship on the rewards but also the discontents and hidden injuries of migration."--Slavic Review "New ways of looking at Russian society are well exploited, and hitherto ignored or unnoticed facts are revealed about individuals or institutions. This is a book that really does repay its reader."--The Slavonic and East European Review "This well-crafted collection of essays brings together a comprehensive selection of new research on mobility in Russia from the Tsarist Empire's westernmost provinces to the Far East. Of worldwide interest to scholars in migration studies as well as Eastern European studies."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium“An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia

• Contributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova

John Randolph is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eugene M. Avrutin is an assistant professor of modern European Jewish history and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Highly recommended. Randolph and Avrutin have done much to place mobility into the mainstream of Russian historiography."--The Russian Review “An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia "A meritorious contribution."--Journal of Transport History "This is an absorbing collection of essays that will repay reading by historians and social scientists. . . . A good introduction to the latest scholarship on the rewards but also the discontents and hidden injuries of migration."--Slavic Review "New ways of looking at Russian society are well exploited, and hitherto ignored or unnoticed facts are revealed about individuals or institutions. This is a book that really does repay its reader."--The Slavonic and East European Review "This well-crafted collection of essays brings together a comprehensive selection of new research on mobility in Russia from the Tsarist Empire's westernmost provinces to the Far East. Of worldwide interest to scholars in migration studies as well as Eastern European studies."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium“An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia

• Contributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova

John Randolph is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eugene M. Avrutin is an assistant professor of modern European Jewish history and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Highly recommended. Randolph and Avrutin have done much to place mobility into the mainstream of Russian historiography."--The Russian Review “An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia "A meritorious contribution."--Journal of Transport History "This is an absorbing collection of essays that will repay reading by historians and social scientists. . . . A good introduction to the latest scholarship on the rewards but also the discontents and hidden injuries of migration."--Slavic Review "New ways of looking at Russian society are well exploited, and hitherto ignored or unnoticed facts are revealed about individuals or institutions. This is a book that really does repay its reader."--The Slavonic and East European Review "This well-crafted collection of essays brings together a comprehensive selection of new research on mobility in Russia from the Tsarist Empire's westernmost provinces to the Far East. Of worldwide interest to scholars in migration studies as well as Eastern European studies."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium“An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia

• Contributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova