Anika Walke is Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. She is author of Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia.

Nicole Svobodny is Senior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Assistant Dean at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a co-editor of Under the Sky of My Africa: Pushkin and Blackness.

Jan Musekamp is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at the European University Viadrina.

Introduction / Anika Walke
Part I: Ways of Moving
1. Paris—St. Petersburg: Shrinking Spaces in the Nineteenth Century / Jan Musekamp
2. "A main station at one’s front door": Bicycles, Automobiles, and Early Adapters’ Dreams of Personal Mobility in Poland, 1885-1939 / Nathan Wood
3. Walking with a Tolstoyan Dancer: Physical and Psychic Mobility in Vaslav Nijinsky’s Diary / Nicole Svobodny
4. Russian Resorts and European Leisure: Railroad Vacations, "Native" Sites, and the Making of a Russian (Post)Colonial Identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s / Chia Yin Hsu
Part II: People in Motion
5. Dynamic Bohemians: The Russian Artistic Circle in Paris (Russkii Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe) / Anna Winestein
6. Sex at the Border: Trafficking as a Migration Problem in Partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted
7. Evacuation as Migration: The Soviet Experience during the Great Patriotic War / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch
8. Far from Home: Soviet and Non-Soviet Railway Workers’ Experiences during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984 / Christopher J. Ward
Part III: Narratives of Migration
9. Traumatic Mobility: Motivating Collective Authorship in Siberian Narratives of Polish Exiles from the Inter-revolutionary Epoch (1832-62) / Elizabeth Blake
10. Technology, the City, and the Body: Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin / Harriet Murav
11. Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter / George Gasyna
12. Journeys of Identity: From Soviet Jew to German Writer / Adrian Wanner