Kritika Volume 14 No.2
From the Editors
Late Soviet Politics as Patron–Client Relations 237
Forum: Late Soviet Regional Leadership
YORAM GORLIZKI
Scandal in Riazan: Networks of Trust and the Social Dynamics of Deception 243
WILLIAM A. CLARK
Khrushchev’s “Second” First Secretaries: Career Trajectories after the Unification of Oblast Party Organizations 279
MARC ELIE
Coping with the “Black Dragon”: Mudflow Hazards and the Controversy over the Medeo Dam in Kazakhstan, 1958–66 313
SAULIUS GRYBKAUSKAS
The Role of the Second Party Secretary in the “Election” of the First: The Political Mechanism for the Appointment of the Head of Soviet Lithuania in 1974 343
History and Historians
SHEILA FITZPATRICK
T. H. Rigby Remembered 367
Review Essays
ANNA FISHZON
When Music Makes History 381
RANDALL A. POOLE
Gustav Shpet: Russian Philosopher of the Human Level of Being 395
JOHN-PAUL HIMKA
Encumbered Memory: The Ukrainian Famine of 1932–33 411
KEVIN M. F. PLATT
Writing Avant-Garde and Stalinist Culture, or How Cultural History Is Made: Three Examples and a Meditation 437
Reviews
ALISON K. SMITH
Natal´ia Anatol´evna Ivanova and Valentina Pavlovna Zheltova, Soslovnoe obshchestvo Rossiiskoi imperii (XVIII–nachalo XX veka) (Soslovie Society of the Russian Empire [18th–Early 19th Centuries]) 457
MAUREEN PERRIE
Kevin M. F. Platt, Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths; Natal´ia Nikolaevna Mut´ia, Ivan Groznyi: Istorizm i lichnost´ pravitelia v otechestvennom iskusstve XIX–XX vv. (Ivan the Terrible: Historicity and the Personality of the Ruler in Russian Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries) 463
TOBIAS RUPPRECHT
Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood, Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds 473
FRANK UEKÖTTER
Klaus Gestwa, Die Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus: Sowjetische Technik- und Umweltgeschichte, 1948–1967 (Stalinist Large-Scale Construction Sites of Communism: A Soviet Environmental History and History of Technology, 1948–67) 477
Contributors to This Issue 481
