Kritika Volume 15 No.2
From the Editors
Making Russian History Up 231
Forum: 1812—The War in Words
Nikolai Promyslov
The Image of Russia in French Public Opinion, 1811–12 235
Victor Taki
The Horrors of War
Representations of Violence in European, Oriental, and
“Patriotic” Wars 263
Reaction
Alexander M. Martin
The Last “War in Lace” or the First “Total War”? 293
Article
Zhivka Valiavicharska
How the Concept of Totalitarianism Appeared in Late Socialist Bulgaria
The Birth and Life of Zheliu Zhelev’s Book Fascism 303
Reaction
Vladislav Zubok
How the Late Soviet Intelligentsia Swapped Ideology 335
Forum: Fiction and the Historical Imagination
Carolyn J. Pouncy
History, Real and Invented 343
Alfred J. Rieber
A Tale of Three Genres
History, Fiction, and the Historical Detektiv 353
Julius Wachtel
The Road to Stalin’s Witnesses
Seeking Truth through Fiction 365
History and Historians
Joshua Rubenstein
A Jewish Radical, a Jewish Liberal, and Russian History 377
Review Article
Glennys Young
To Russia with “Spain”
Spanish Exiles in the USSR and the Longue Durée of Soviet History 395
Review Essay
Frances Nethercott
Reevaluating Russian Historical Culture 421
Reviews
Elizabeth Kendall
Opera, Ballet, and Political Power 441
Isabelle Kaplan
Speaking Soviet in Kyrgyzstan 451
Stephen Brain
How the Soviets Explored the Cosmic Void and Found … Nothing 458
Letters
Peter B. Brown
To the Editors
With a response by Anna Joukovskaia 466
Contributors to This Issue 468