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Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union

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In the early 1990s social scientists began to refer to migrants who retained familial and economic ties with their country of origin as transnational. The term eventually gained currency among historians who had found multiple examples of such ties in earlier decades and centuries. Although migrants traveling among former Soviet republics came to be understood as transnational, Soviet-era migrants never have been so characterized. We contend that this is due to a double blindness: that of migration scholars to the Soviet Union as a “state of nations,” and that of historians of the Soviet period to migration as a complicating element in the construction of nationality. By emphasizing the transnational dimension of “internal” Soviet migration, we seek to sharpen awareness of how nationality worked in the Soviet context, particularly in its last decades. We thus posit the maintenance of economic, familial and other affective ties across Soviet national boundaries as the Soviet version of transnationalism—transnationalism in one country. We also suggest the ways that despite its well-deserved reputation for limiting international migration and otherwise restricting its citizenry, the Soviet state facilitated transnationalism within its borders.

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We thank the anonymous readers for Slavic Review and its editor as well as Kate Brown, Matt Pauly, and Ron Suny for their helpful comments and suggestions on successive draft s of this essay, and Duncan Tarr for his bibliographic assistance. We presented oral versions of this article to the Europeanist colloquium at Michigan State University, the Midwest Russian Historians Workshop at the University of Toronto, the European University of St. Petersburg, and the European Social Science History Conference in Valencia.

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