Kritika Volume 15 No.3

*2015 recipient of the Heldt Prize, Best Article in Slavic and East European Women's Studies,  Anika Walke's "Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto: How Age and Gender Mattered"

Special Issue: In the Shadow of the Holocaust Soviet Jewry on the Eastern Front From the Editors Soviet Jewry and Soviet History in the Time of War and Holocaust     471 Articles Anna Shternshis Between Life and Death: Why Some Soviet Jews Decided to Leave and Others to Stay in 1941     477 Vladimir Solonari Hating Soviets—Killing Jews: How Antisemitic Were Local Perpetrators in Southern Ukraine, 1941–42?     505 Anika Walke Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto: How Age and Gender Mattered     535 Arkadi Zeltser Differing Views among Red Army Personnel about the Nazi Mass Murder of Jews     563 Reaction Jan T. Gross A Colonial History of the Bloodlands     591 History and Historians Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock “The Confession of an Atheist Who Became a Scholar of Religion”: Nikolai Semenovich Gordienko’s Last Interview     597 Review Essays Mark Gamsa Cities and Identity, War, and Memory in the Baltic Region     621 Polly Jones Socialist Worlds of Dissent and Discontent after Stalinism     637 Reviews Paul Buskovitch The Testament of Ivan the Terrible     653 Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter Power and the 18th-Century Gentry     657 Yanni Kotsonis Citizenship in Russia and the Soviet Union     665 Hiroaki Kuromiya Stalin’s Rule of Terror     670 Contributors to This Issue     676