Imperial Odessa : people, spaces, identities
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Imperial Odessa : people, spaces, identities
(Eurasian studies library : historical, political and social studies of Slavic and Islamic cultures in the Eurasian region, v. 8)
Brill, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-275) and indexes
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Description
Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities is a book about a cosmopolitan city written by a cosmopolitan scholar with a literary flair. Evrydiki Sifneos conceives Odessa as more of a fin-de siecle east Mediterranean port-metropolis than as a provincial port-city of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century due to two of its principal characteristics: its function as a hub of international trade and travel, and the multi-ethnic character of its inhabitants. The book unfolds around two interpenetrating axes. The first one introduces a new "peripatetic" approach that discovers the space of the city; and the other, the one that has given it its dynamic, is the socio-economic transformations that germinated within the political changes.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa's History
1 The Peripatetic Approach
2 The Socio-economic Approach
1 Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism
1 Port-City Identities and Cosmopolitanism
2 Enlightened Administrators
3 The People of the Port
4 Influences from Without and Within
5 The Connectedness of Odessa
6 Travel Destination and Relay
7 The Demographic Snapshot
8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhel'son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District
9 Images, Representations, Comparisons
2 Toward a Consumer Society: Tastes, Markets and Political Liberalism
1 The Rise of a Consumer Society
2 Markets
3 Provisioning the City
4 Profile of the Merchant-Entrepreneurs Involved in Foreign Trade and Their Specialisations
5 Patterns of Successful Business
6 The Evolution of Markets in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
7 Political Liberalism: The Parallel Activity of the Union of Welfare and the Greek Secret Society
8 Imagining Greece's Independence in Odessa's Greek Market
9 History of the Philiki Etaireia
10 Facilitating Factors for Political Fermentation
11 The Commercial Outlook of the Greek Society of Friends
3 Merchants and Entrepreneurs: The Driving Forces of Odessa's Economy
1 Industry in Odessa
2 Types of Entrepreneurs and Strategies
3 The Port and the Exporter
4 Middlemen: The Period of Transition
5 Real Estate Owners in Odessa
6 The Diversified Entrepreneur
7 The "Political" Entrepreneur
8 At the Commercial Court
9 Transcending Communal Boundaries in Capital Raising
4 The Springtime of the Public Sphere
1 Public Spaces
2 Civil Society?
3 Associations, Societies, Professional Societies
4 Workers' Associations
5 Ethnic Minority Associations
6 Charity as a Culture
7 An Example of Commercial Charity: The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa
8 Towards a Longed-for Multi-Ethnic Society: Odessa 1907-1914
5 The Two Sides of the Moon: Ethnic Clashes and Tolerance in a Cosmopolitan City
1 Co-existence and Tolerance in the Upper Classes
2 Rivalry in the Middle Classes
3 Separation and Conflict in the Lower Strata
4 Crisis Management and the Responsibilities of the Local Authorities
5 Stereotypes
6 Impact of the Pogroms and Civic Drawbacks
7 Non-ethnic Violence
6 The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City
1 Aftermath: The Four Stories
2 Politicization during the School Years
2.1 Gymnasia Militancy
2.2 Acquaintances
2.3 The Illegal Literature
3 Between Judicial Responsibility, Passion for Music and Revolution
3.1 1918 - Law Service, Music and German Occupation
3.2 1919 - Farewell to the Violoncello
4 Between War and Revolution
4.1 The February Revolution
4.2 The October Revolution
4.3 The Bolsheviks in Odessa (January-March)
4.4 Odessa under Austro-German Occupation (March-November 1918)
4.5 The Allied Intervention (French and Greeks in Odessa) - December 1918-March 1919
4.6 The Departure
5 At the Gen Factory in Peresyp'
5.1 Ideology and Workers' Demands in 1917
5.2 The Battle for the Eight-Hour Workday
5.3 Bombshells into Ploughshares
5.4 At Odessa's Companies
5.5 The "Sale" of the Factory
6 Peoples and Identities
7 Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Subjects
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