Unsettling the Empire: Violent Migrations and Social Disaster in Russia during World War I

Sanborn discusses the Russian experience during World War I as a way of opening up broader questions regarding war and human environment. His narrative begins with an analysis of the various ways that the major migrant communities of the war--both military and civilian--constituted themselves as social entities and then interacted with each other, with the enemy, with officialdom, and with local populations among which they were living.