Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities

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A new "peripatetic" approach that discovers the space of the city and at the same time reveals its dynamic as a fin-de siecle east Mediterranean port-metropolis, through the activities of its ethnic groups that contributed to the socio-economic transformations that germinated within the political changes. Imperial Odessa......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Foreword......Page 9 Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa’s History......Page 11 1 The Peripatetic Approach......Page 13 2 The Socio-economic Approach......Page 21 Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism......Page 30 1 Port-City Identities and Cosmopolitanism......Page 37 2 Enlightened Administrators......Page 40 3 The People of the Port......Page 43 4 Influences from Without and Within......Page 46 5 The Connectedness of Odessa......Page 48 6 Travel Destination and Relay......Page 50 7 The 1897 Demographic Snapshot......Page 52 8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhel’son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District......Page 59 9 Images, Representations, Comparisons......Page 61 Toward a Consumer Society: Tastes, Markets and Political Liberalism......Page 67 1 The Rise of a Consumer Society......Page 68 2 Markets......Page 69 3 Provisioning the City......Page 76 4 Profile of the Merchant-Entrepreneurs Involved in Foreign Trade and Their Specialisations......Page 77 5 Patterns of Successful Business......Page 82 6 The Evolution of Markets in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century......Page 85 7 Political Liberalism: The Parallel Activity of the Union of Welfare and the Greek Secret Society......Page 89 8 Imagining Greece’s Independence in Odessa’s Greek Market......Page 91 9 History of the Philiki Etaireia......Page 94 10 Facilitating Factors for Political Fermentation......Page 97 11 The Commercial Outlook of the Greek Society of Friends......Page 102 Merchants and Entrepreneurs: The Driving Forces of Odessa’s Economy......Page 109 1 Industry in Odessa......Page 112 2 Types of Entrepreneurs and Strategies......Page 119 3 The Port and the Exporter......Page 122 4 Middlemen: The Period of Transition......Page 127 5 Real Estate Owners in Odessa......Page 131 6 The Diversified Entrepreneur......Page 134 7 The “Political” Entrepreneur......Page 137 8 At the Commercial Court......Page 140 9 Transcending Communal Boundaries in Capital Raising......Page 147 1 Public Spaces......Page 155 2 Civil Society?......Page 160 3 Associations, Societies, Professional Societies......Page 161 4 Workers’ Associations......Page 166 5 Ethnic Minority Associations......Page 168 6 Charity as a Culture......Page 170 7 Αn Example of Commercial Charity: The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa......Page 171 8 Towards a Longed-for Multi-Ethnic Society: Odessa 1907–1914......Page 173 The Two Sides of the Moon: Ethnic Clashes and Tolerance in a Cosmopolitan City......Page 183 1 Co-existence and Tolerance in the Upper Classes......Page 184 2 Rivalry in the Middle Classes......Page 186 3 Separation and Conflict in the Lower Strata......Page 189 4 Crisis Management and the Responsibilities of the Local Authorities......Page 196 5 Stereotypes......Page 199 6 Impact of the Pogroms and Civic Drawbacks......Page 206 7 Non-ethnic Violence......Page 209 The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City......Page 216 1 Αftermath: The Four Stories......Page 221 2 Politicization during the School Years......Page 224 2.2 Acquaintances......Page 225 3 Between Judicial Responsibility, Passion for Music and Revolution......Page 227 3.1 1918 – Law Service, Music and German Occupation......Page 228 3.2 1919 – Farewell to the Violoncello......Page 230 4.1 The February Revolution......Page 231 4.2 Τhe October Revolution......Page 233 4.4 Odessa under Austro-German Occupation (March–November 1918)......Page 234 4.5 Τhe Allied Intervention (French and Greeks in Odessa)– December 1918 – March 1919......Page 237 4.6 The Departure......Page 238 5 At the Gen Factory in Peresyp’......Page 239 5.2 The Battle for the Eight-Hour Workday......Page 240 5.3 Bombshells into Ploughshares......Page 241 5.4 At Odessa’s Companies......Page 243 6 Peoples and Identities......Page 244 7 Epilogue......Page 246 Appendix......Page 249 Archival Sources......Page 264 Journals/Newspapers/Periodicals......Page 265 Published Sources and Secondary Literature......Page 266 Index of Names......Page 286 Index of Places......Page 289 Index of Subjects......Page 290