Context: the Russian World

Emigration and the Russian State

From the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian Empire experienced a massive and unprecedented wave of emigration during which millions of Russian subjects left the Empire to settle abroad. What role did the Russian state play in this process? How did the tsarist government mediate and influence its citizens’ emigration?

Borders, Demographics, Emancipation, emigration, Hamburg, Immigration Routes, Industrialization, Labor, Land Reform, Peasants, Persecution, Ports, religion, Russian jews, Violence