Kritika Volume 11 No.1

From the Editors

An Interview with Richard Stites . . . 1

Articles

YVES COHEN
Circulatory Localities: The Example of Stalinism in the 1930s . . . 11

ETHAN POLLOCK
“Real Men Go to the Bania”: Postwar Soviet Masculinities and the Bathhouse . . . 47

History and Historians

MICHAEL CONFINO
Franco Venturi’s Russia . . . 77

Review Essays

CHERIE WOODWORTH
Where Did the East European Jews Come From? An Explosive Debate Erupts from Old Footnotes . . . 107

CHIA YIN HSU
Diaries and Diaspora Identity: Rethinking Russian Emigration in China . . . 127

R. W. DAVIES
The Economic History of the Soviet Union Reconsidered . . . 145

Reviews

PAUL BUSHKOVITCH
Irina Leonidovna Buseva-Davydova, Kul´tura i iskusstvo v epokhu peremen: Rossiia semnadtsatogo stoletiia (Culture and Art in an Age of Changes: Russia in the 17th Century); Ol´ga Vladimirovna Novokhatko, Razriad v 185 godu (The Razriad in 1676/77); Lidiia Ivanovna Sazonova, Literaturnaia kul´tura Rossii: Rannee Novoe vremia (Russia’s Literary Culture: The Early Modern Period); Pavel Vladimirovich Sedov, Zakat Moskovskogo tsarstva: Tsarskii dvor kontsa XVII veka (The Sunset of the Muscovite Tsardom: The Tsar’s Court in the Late 17th Century) . . . 161

BRIAN L. DAVIES
Liubov´ Fedorovna Pisar´kova, Gosudarstvennoe upravlenie Rossii s kontsa XVII do kontsa XVIII veka: Evoliutsiia biurokraticheskoi sistemy (The State Administration of Russia from the Late 17th to the Late 18th Centuries: Evolution of the Bureaucratic System); Dmitrii Alekseevich Redin, Administrativnye struktury i biurokratiia Urala v epokhu petrovskikh reform (zapadnye uezdy Sibirskoi gubernii v 1711–1727) (The Administrative Structures and Bureaucracy of the Urals in the Age of the Petrine Reforms (the Western Districts of the Governorship of Siberia in 1711–27)) . . . 173

HEATHER J. COLEMAN
Laurie Manchester, Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia; Vera Aleksandrovna Tarasova, Vysshaia dukhovnaia shkola v Rossii v kontse XIX–nachale XX veka: Istoriia imperatorskikh pravoslavnykh dukhovnykh akademii (Theological Higher Education in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Russia: A History of the Imperial Orthodox Theological Academies) . . . 181

CATHERINE EVTUHOV
Dmitrij Belkin, “Gäste, die bleiben”: Vladimir Solov´ev, die Juden und die Deutschen (“Guests Who Stay”: Vladimir Solov´ev, the Jews, and the Germans); Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Divine Sophia: The Wisdom
Writings of Vladimir Solovyov . . . 193

RÓSA MAGNÚSDÓTTIR
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, Khrushchev´s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary; Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War; Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev . . . 201

Letters

CATRIONA KELLY
To the Editors . . . 212

Contributors to This Issue . . . 214