Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.
Journal Details
- Frequency: One volume (four issues) per year
- ISSN/eISSN: 1531-023X/1538-5000
- Website: http://kritika.georgetown.edu/
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Historical Abstracts, ISI Alerting Service, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, Modern Language Association, Wilson Humanities Full Text, Wilson OmniFile Full Text
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Contents
Special Issue
Science, Fiction, and Power in the Soviet Union
From the Editors
Technopolitics and the Frontiers of History . . . 677
ARTICLES
Alexei Yurchak
Communist Proteins: Lenin’s Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life . . . 683
Slava Gerovitch
“We Teach Them to Be Free”: Specialized Math Schools and the Cultivation of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia . . . 717
Ksenia Tatarchenko
“The Right to Be Wrong”: Science Fiction, Gaming, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Kon-Tiki: A Path to the Earth (1985–86) . . . 755
Joseph Kellner
As Above, So Below: Astrology and the Fate of Soviet Scientism . . . 783
REACTION
Grégory Dufaud
The History of Science and Technology, or How to Grasp Heterogeneity . . . 813
REVIEW ESSAYS
Volodymyr Kravchenko
Putting One and One Together? “Ukraine,” “Malorossiia,” and “Russia” . . . 823
Courtney Doucette
A Blast from the Past . . . 841
REVIEWS
Maureen Perrie
Samozvanstvo and the Legitimation of Power in Russian Political Culture . . . 855
Zhang Fengfeng and Zhang Laiyi
Divergent Paths in the History of Central Eurasia . . . 865
Éric Aunoble
Postrevolutionary Syndromes . . . 879
Jörn Happel
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov Analyzes the US Enemy in the USSR . . . 889
Katja M. Mielke
Thirty Years after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan . . . 895
IN MEMORIAM
Laurie Manchester
Mark von Hagen (1954–2019) . . . 904
LETTER
Taras Kuzio
To the Editors
With a Response from Tarik Cyril Amar . . . 907
Contributors to This Issue . . . 911
From the Editors
An Interview with Kate Brown 437
Forum: Crime, Labor, and Justice in the Wartime USSR
Oleg Budnitskii
The Great Terror of 1941
Toward a History of Wartime Stalinist Criminal Justice 447
Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Deserters from the Labor Front
The Limits of Coercion in the Soviet War Economy 481
Articles
Alexander V. Maiorov
Byzantine Imperial Purple in Ancient Rus ́ 505
Laurie Manchester
Fusing Russian Nationalism with Soviet Patriotism
Changing Conceptions of Homeland and the Mass Repatriation of Manchurian Russians after Stalin’s Death 529
History and Historians: Reflections on Women’s History
Introduction 559
Barbara Engel
“In the Beginning” 565
Eve Levin
A Journey through Feminism 571
Natalia Pushkareva
My Women’s History, My Memory 577
David L. Ransel
A Side Door to Women’s History 583
Christine D. Worobec
A Circuitous Path 591
Review Essays
Michael Hancock-Parmer Flight and Famine
Interrogating Collectivization, Stalinism, and Genocide 601
Eleonory Gilburd
Seminal Years and the Long Arc of the Moral Universe. 613
Reviews
Steven Seegel
The Enlightenment in Russia and Points West. 627
Boris Ganichev
Seeing the Russian Empire through an Ottoman Prism. 634
Adeeb Khalid
Cottonizing Central Asia 644
Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Truth and Lies across the Iron Curtain 649
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
The Struggle for a Political Economy from Gorbachev to Putin 655
In Memoriam
Alain Blum and Françoise Daucé
Larissa Zakharova (1977–2019) 662
Contributors to This Issue 673
From the Editors
“The Year That Changed the World”? 221
Erratum 226
Forum: Oral History and Memory in Soviet Central Asia
Jeff Sahadeo
Introduction 227
Marianne Kamp
Hunger and Potatoes: The 1933 Famine in Uzbekistan and Changing Foodways 237
Adrienne L. Edgar
What to Name the Children? Oral Histories of Ethnically Mixed Families in Soviet Kazakhstan and Tajikistan 269
Ali İğmen
Gender and National Identity in Memories of the Late 20th-Century Soviet Theater in Kyrgyzstan 291
Article
Evgenii A. Krestiannikov
Along the Routes of Justice: Judicial Circuit Riding in Western Siberia during the Late Imperial Period 315
Review Essays
Alexander E. Balistreri
Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Shaykh: Border Crossers in the Historiography of the Modern Caucasus 345
Christine E. Evans
Stirlitz in Washington? What “Stagnation” Tells Us Now 365
Reviews
Lynn Ellen Patyk
Reading, Writing, and Realism in 19th-Century Russia 377
Alexander Morrison
Convicts and Concentration Camps 390
Oksana Bulgakowa
The Other History of Soviet Cinema 404
Joshua Rubenstein
Unearthing the Holocaust on the Russian Front 409
Susanne Schattenberg
Brezhnev’s Memos as a Source 421
Walter Sperling
Moscow, Maidan, and the Politics of Russia’s “Glorious Past” 430
Letter
Ben Eklof and Tatiana Saburova
To the Editors 433
Contributors to This Issue 435
Contents
From the Editors
Walled Worlds “Illiberal Democracy” and the CEU Affair 1
Forum: “National Indifference” in the Russian Empire
Andrei Cusco
Russians, Romanians, or Neither?
Mobilization of Ethnicity and “National Indifference” in Early 20th-Century Bessarabia 7
Karsten Brüggemann and Katja Wezel
Nationally Indifferent or Ardent Nationalists?
On the Options for Being German in Russia’s Baltic Provinces, 1905–17 39
Alexei Miller “National Indifference” as a Political Strategy? 63
Articles
John M. Romero
Soviet Music as National Achievement
The development of Professional Music in the tatar Assr, 1928–59 73
Simone A. Bellezza
The “Transnationalization” of Ukrainian Dissent
New York City Ukrainian Students and the Defense of Human Rights, 1968–80 99
Review Essays
Luba Golburt
Private Affairs
Histories of the Russian Age of Sensibility 121
Theodore R. Weeks
Jews and Russians from Imperial to Soviet Times 133
Tarik Cyril Amar
Politics, Starvation, and Memory
A Critique of Red Famine 145
Reviews
Ricarda Vulpius
The Russian Variant of Enlightenment 171
Boris Kolonitskii
Before and After the Revolution 179
Vitalij Fastovskij
In Search of Soviet Podlinnost ́ 184
Barbara Martin and Clemens Günther
Psychiatry in Late Soviet Literature 191
Karl D. Qualls
Making Spaces, Building Socialism, Transforming People 198
Andreas Hilger
The Global Cold War and its Legacies 208
Contributors to This Issue 219
Contents
From the Editors
An Interview with Lewis H. Siegelbaum 689
Articles
Rachel Koroloff Juniper
From Medicine to Poison and Back Again in 17th-Century Muscovy 697
Siobhán Hearne
To Denounce or Defend?
Public Participation in the Policing of Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia 717
Yuexin Rachel Lin
The Opportunity of a Thousand Years
Chinese Merchant Organizations in the Russian Civil War 745
Edward Cohn
A Soviet Theory of Broken Windows
Prophylactic Policing and the KGB’s Struggle with Political Unrest in the Baltic Republics 769
Review Essays
Alison K. Smith
The Russian Empire, the Russian Nation, and the Problem of the 19th Century 793
Sofya Salomatina
Debtors and Creditors in the Modern Age
An Interdisciplinary Dialogue 813
Stephen M. Norris
Killing Stalin
An Interpretation in Three Acts 827
Reviews
Jennifer Keating
Place, Power, and Experience in Tsarist Exile 849
Olga Malinova-Tziafeta
On the Path to Russian Modernity 861
Sören Urbansky
Challenges of Subalternity on the Northeast Asian Frontier 867
Joshua Rubenstein
Millenarian Bolshevism? 877
Igor Narskii
Archaeology of a Lost World and Remembering Soviet Life 891
Erratum 907
Contributors to This Issue 908