Imperial Odessa : Peoples, Spaces, Identities.

Intro -- Imperial Odessa -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa's History -- 1 The Peripatetic Approach -- 2 The Socio-economic Approach -- 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 1897 Demographic Snapshot -- 8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhel'son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District -- 9 Images, Representations, Comparisons -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Αn Example of Commercial Charity: The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa -- 8 Towards a Longed-for Multi-Ethnic Society: Odessa 1907-1914 -- 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 -- The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City -- 1 Αftermath: 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 Τhe October Revolution -- 4.3 The Bolsheviks in Odessa (January-March 1918) -- 4.4 Odessa under Austro-German Occupation (March-November 1918) -- 4.5 Τhe 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 -- Archival Sources -- Journals/Newspapers/Periodicals -- Published Sources and Secondary Literature -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.

A new "peripatetic" approach that discovers the space of the city and at the same time reveals its dynamic as a fin-de siècle east Mediterranean port-metropolis, through the activities of its ethnic groups that contributed to the socio-economic transformations that germinated within the political changes.

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