Kritika Volume 16 No.2
From the Editors
A New Chill? Foreign Scholars and the Russian Visa Question 229
Erratum 234
Articles
William Pomeranz
The Practice of Law and the Promise of Rule of Law: The Advokatura and the Civil Process in Tsarist Russia 235
Mayhill C. Fowler
Mikhail Bulgakov, Mykola Kulish, and Soviet Theater: How Internal Transnationalism Remade Center and Periphery 263
Forum: Forces for Change in Early Modern Russia
Paul Bushkovitch
Change and Culture in Early Modern Russia 291
Nancy S. Kollmann
A Deeper Early Modern: A Response to Paul Bushkovitch 317
Forum: What’s So Central about Central Asia?
Uyama Tomohiko
The Contribution of Central Eurasian Studies to Russian and (Post-)Soviet Studies and Beyond: Achievements, Possibilities, and Concerns 331
Gulmira Sultangalieva
The Place of Kazakhstan in the Study of Central Asia 345
Sergey Abashin
Soviet Central Asia on the Periphery 359
Jeff Sahadeo
Home and Away: Why the Asian Periphery Matters in Russian History 375
Reaction
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
On the Edge? Central Asia’s Place in the Field 389
Review Essay
Anatoly Pinsky
Soviet Modernity Post-Stalin: The State, Emotions, and Subjectivities 395
Reviews
Ekaterina Boltunova
The Russian Officer Corps and Military Efficiency, 1800–1914 413
Olga Haldey
The Melodrama of City Life in Early 20th-Century Russia 423
Faith Hillis
Warsaw Jews and the 1905 Revolution 429
Alexis Peri
Survival and Subversion during the Great Patriotic War 437
Ingrid Kleespies
Tourism Soviet-Style 444
Thomas M. Bohn
Soviet History as a History of Urbanization 451
In Memoriam
Brian J. Boeck
Edward L. Keenan (1935–2015) 459
Contributors to This Issue 467