• Figure 2.1 “Try as they might, there is no budging the wagon”: a 1914 Ekaterinoslav cartoon with Russia pictured as a covered wagon being dragged by Austria, Turkey, and Germany on a map of the East European steppe just north of the Black Sea (and since the revolution—Ukraine). (National Library of Finland, received June 9, 2021).

FIG. 2.1. “Try as they might, there is no budging the wagon”: a 1914 Ekaterinoslav cartoon showing Russia as a covered wagon.

From Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914–1922 by Edith W. Clowes

  • This World-War-One-era cartoon shows tsarist Russia not as territory per se but as a wagon stuck in the steppe, a kind of endless highway, without horses or oxen to move it. Tsarist Russia is not a place but a vehicle—suggesting that Russia per se is not a home but a liminal space through which one moves between one place and another.
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