Kritika Volume 16 No.1
From the Editors
The Ukrainian Crisis and History 1
Articles
Mikhail A. Kiselev
State Metallurgy Factories and Direct Taxes in the Urals, 1700–50
Paths to State Building in Early Modern Russia 7
Michael Denner
Resistance Is Futile, but Nonresistance Might Work
The East and Russia in Tolstoi’s Political Imagination, 1905–10 37
Danielle Ross
Caught in the Middle
Reform and Youth Rebellion in Russia’s Madrasas, 1900–10 57
Johanna Conterio
Inventing the Subtropics
An Environmental History of Sochi, 1929–36 91
Forum: The Ukrainian Crisis, Past and Present
Faith Hillis
Intimacy and Antipathy
Ukrainian–Russian Relations in Historical Perspective 121
John-Paul Himka
The History behind the Regional Conflict in Ukraine 129
William Jay Risch
What the Far Right Does Not Tell Us about the Maidan 137
Alexei Miller
The “Ukrainian Crisis” and Its Multiple Histories 145
Georgiy Kasianov
How a War for the Past Becomes a War in the Present 149
Review Essay
Randall A. Poole
Nineteenth-Century Russian Liberalism
Ideals and Realities 157
Reviews
Ann M. Kleimola
Medieval Visual Metaphors and Beasts Noble and Savage 183
Heather J. Coleman
Region and Nation in Late Imperial Russian Ukraine 194
Jan Hennings
World Revolution and International Diplomacy, 1900–39 204
Arkadi Zeltser
Soviet Jews in Belorussia and Ukraine 211
Karsten Brüggemann
The Lithuanian Cultural Elite and the End of the Soviet Union 219
Contributors to This Issue 227