Kritika Volume 14 No.1

From the Editors

Siberia: Colony and Frontier     1

Forum: Rediscovering Siberia

DANIEL BEER
The Exile, The Patron, and the Pardon: The Voyage of the Dawn (1877) and the Politics of Punishment in an Age of Nationalism and Empire      5

LEWIS SIEGELBAUM
Those Elusive Scouts: Pioneering Peasants and the Russian State, 1870s–1950s     31

ALBERTO MASOERO
Territorial Colonization in Late Imperial Russia: Stages in the Development of a Concept     59

Review Essays

SUSAN SMITH-PETER
Russian America in Russian and American Historiography      93

HUBERTUS F. JAHN
Politics at the Margins and the Margins of Politics in Imperial Russia     101

CYNTHIA V. HOOPER
Bosses in Captivity? On the Limitations of Gulag Memoir      117

Reviews

RUSSELL E. MARTIN
Iurii Moiseevich Eskin, Ocherki istorii mestnichestva v Rossii XVI–XVII vv. (Essays in the History of Precedence in 16th- and 17th-Century Russia); Irina Borisovna Mikhailova, I zdes´ soshlis´ vse tsarstva…: Ocherki po istorii Gosudareva dvora v Rossii XVI v. Povsednevnaia i prazdnichnaia kul´tura, semantika, etiketa i obriadnosti (And Here All Kingdoms Met: Essays in the History of the Sovereign’s Court in 16th-Century Russia. Everyday and Celebratory Culture, Semantics, Etiquette, and Ritual)     143

ERIKA MONAHAN
Andrew Gentes, Exile to Siberia, 1590–1822: Corporeal Commodification and Administrative Systematization in Russia; V. D. Puzanov, Voennye faktory russkoi kolonizatsii zapadnoi Sibiri, konets XVI–XVII vv. (Military Factors in the Russian Colonization of Western Siberia in the Late 16th and 17th Centuries); Christoph Witzenrath, Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598–1725: Manipulation, Rebellion, and Expansion into Siberia     151

ELISE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER
Hubertus Jahn, Armes Russland: Bettler und Notleidende in der russische Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart (Russia’s Poor: Beggars and the Needy in Russian History from the Middle Ages to the Present); Natal´ia Vadimovna Kozlova, Liudi driakhlye, bol´nye, ubogie v Moskve XVIII veka (The Infirm, the Sick, and the Poor in 18th-Century Moscow)     164

DANIEL ORLOVSKY
Boris Kolonitskii, “Tragicheskaia erotika”: Obrazy imperatorskoi sem´i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (“Tragic Eroticism”: Images of the Imperial Family during World War I)     172

MONICA RÜTHERS
Tim Harte, Fast Forward: The Aesthetics of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910–1930; Corinna Kuhr-Korolev and Dirk Schlinkert, eds., Towards Mobility: Varieties of Automobilism in East and West; Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile     182

VLADIMIR TISMANEANU
Cristina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times     192

MICHAEL WILDT
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin     197

ALEXIS PERI
Nicholas Ganson, The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective; Serguei Alex. Oushakine, The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia     207

TIM B. MÜLLER
Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 3 vols     213

CHRISTINE EVANS
Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring; Leonid Parfenov, Namedni: Nasha era (Recently: Our Era), 4 vols.; Kristin Roth-Ey, Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cold War     225

Contributors to This Issue     235