Kritika Volume 12 No.2

From the Editors

Models, Margins, and Imperial Entanglements . . . 275
Articles

GÁBOR ÁGOSTON
Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500–1800 . . . 281

VICTOR TAKI
Orientalism on the Margins: The Ottoman Empire under Russian Eyes . . . 321

EKATERINA PRAVILOVA
The Property of Empire: Islamic Law and Russian Agrarian Policy in Transcaucasia and Turkestan . . . 353

HANS-LUKAS KIESER
World War and World Revolution: Alexander Helphand-Parvus in Germany and Turkey . . . 387

MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS
Abdürrezzak Bedirhan: Ottoman Kurd and Russophile in the Twilight of Empire . . . 411

ADEEB KHALID
Central Asia between the Ottoman and the Soviet Worlds . . . 451
Reactions

ANDREAS KAPPELER
Spaces of Entanglement . . . 477

FARIBA ZARINEBAF
Models: A View from the Ottoman Margin . . . 489
Reviews

EDWARD L. KEENAN
Ildar H. Garipzanov, Patrick J. Geary, and Przemysław Urbańczyk, eds., Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe; Omelian (Omeljan) Pritsak, Pokhodzhennia Rusi (The Origin of Rus´), 2 vols.; Tat´iana L. Vilkul, Liudi i kniaz´ v drevnerusskikh letopisiakh serediny XI–XIII vv. (The People and the Prince in Old Russian Chronicles from the Mid-11th to the 13th Centuries) . . . 501

DENIS VOVCHENKO
Angelina Vacheva, Romanut na Imperatritsata: Romanoviiat diskurs v avtobiografichnite zapiski na Ekaterina II. Rakursi na chetene prez vtorata polovina na XIX vek (The Empress’s Novel: Novelistic Discourse in Catherine the Great’s Memoirs. Approaches to Reading in the Second Half of the 19th Century) . . . 510

JULIE HESSLER
Elena Osokina, Zoloto dlia industrializatsii: TORGSIN (Gold for Industrialization: TORGSIN) . . . 518
Contributors to This Issue . . . 523