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.
Author(s): Evrydiki Sifneos
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 296
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
