This viewpoint explores the forced registration of women onto the Russian Empire's police lists of prostitutes in the early 1900s. In Riga, forced registration commonly occurred in the city's hotels, and can be read as official attempts to kick back against perceived moral decline amidst urbanisation, industrialisation, and modernisation.

Hotel raids and forced registration on the police lists of prostitutes in early twentieth-century Riga

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Hotel raids and forced registration on the police lists of prostitutes in early twentieth-century Riga

Hotel raids and forced registration on the police lists of prostitutes in early twentieth-century Riga