Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved
in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the
twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of
late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of
migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the
stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of
their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrants
settlers, seasonal workers, migrants to the city, career and
military migrants, evacuees and refugees, deportees, and
itinerants. So vast and diverse was Russian political space that in
their journeys, migrants often crossed multiple cultural,
linguistic, and administrative borders. By comparing the
institutions and experiences of migration across the century and
placing Russia in an international context, Siegelbaum and Moch
have made a magisterial contribution to both the history of Russia
and the study of global migration.
The authors draw on three kinds of sources: letters to
authorities (typically appeals for assistance); the myriad forms
employed in communication about the provision of transportation,
food, accommodation, and employment for migrants; and interviews
with and memoirs by people who moved or were moved, often under the
most harrowing of circumstances. Taken together, these sources
reveal the complex relationship between the regimes of state
control that sought to regulate internal movement and the tactical
repertoires employed by the migrants themselves in their often
successful attempts to manipulate, resist, and survive these
official directives."
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