Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities

Evrydiki Sifneos (1957-2015) was Research Director of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. She has published monographs and many articles on Black Sea history in English and Greek, including Greek Merchants in the Sea of Azov: The Power and the Limits of a Family Enterprise (Athens, 2009).

• ForewordIntroduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa’s History1 The Peripatetic Approach2 The Socio-economic Approach1 Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism1 Port-City Identities and Cosmopolitanism2 Enlightened Administrators3 The People of the Port4 Influences from Without and Within5 The Connectedness of Odessa6 Travel Destination and Relay7 The Demographic Snapshot8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhel’son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District9 Images, Representations, Comparisons2 Toward a Consumer Society: Tastes, Markets and Political Liberalism1 The Rise of a Consumer Society2 Markets3 Provisioning the City4 Profile of the Merchant-Entrepreneurs Involved in Foreign Trade and Their Specialisations5 Patterns of Successful Business6 The Evolution of Markets in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century7 Political Liberalism: The Parallel Activity of the Union of Welfare and the Greek Secret Society8 Imagining Greece’s Independence in Odessa’s Greek Market9 History of the Philiki Etaireia10 Facilitating Factors for Political Fermentation11 The Commercial Outlook of the Greek Society of Friends3 Merchants and Entrepreneurs: The Driving Forces of Odessa’s Economy1 Industry in Odessa2 Types of Entrepreneurs and Strategies3 The Port and the Exporter4 Middlemen: The Period of Transition5 Real Estate Owners in Odessa6 The Diversified Entrepreneur7 The “Political” Entrepreneur8 At the Commercial Court9 Transcending Communal Boundaries in Capital Raising4 The Springtime of the Public Sphere1 Public Spaces2 Civil Society?3 Associations, Societies, Professional Societies4 Workers’ Associations5 Ethnic Minority Associations6 Charity as a Culture7 Án Example of Commercial Charity: The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa8 Towards a Longed-for Multi-Ethnic Society: Odessa 1907–19145 The Two Sides of the Moon: Ethnic Clashes and Tolerance in a Cosmopolitan City1 Co-existence and Tolerance in the Upper Classes2 Rivalry in the Middle Classes3 Separation and Conflict in the Lower Strata4 Crisis Management and the Responsibilities of the Local Authorities5 Stereotypes6 Impact of the Pogroms and Civic Drawbacks7 Non-ethnic Violence6 The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City1 Áftermath: The Four Stories2 Politicization during the School Years2.1 Gymnasia Militancy2.2 Acquaintances2.3 The Illegal Literature3 Between Judicial Responsibility, Passion for Music and Revolution3.1 1918 – Law Service, Music and German Occupation3.2 1919 – Farewell to the Violoncello4 Between War and Revolution4.1 The February Revolution4.2 The October Revolution4.3 The Bolsheviks in Odessa (January–March)4.4 Odessa under Austro-German Occupation (March–November 1918)4.5 The Allied Intervention (French and Greeks in Odessa) – December 1918–March 19194.6 The Departure5 At the Gen Factory in Peresyp’5.1 Ideology and Workers’ Demands in 19175.2 The Battle for the Eight-Hour Workday5.3 Bombshells into Ploughshares5.4 At Odessa’s Companies5.5 The “Sale” of the Factory6 Peoples and Identities7 EpilogueAppendixBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of Subjects