Kritika Volume 16 No.4
From the Editors
Memorials, Memorials: Closing in on the 1917 Centenary 729
State of the Field: 1917 on the Eve of the Centenary
S. A. Smith
The Historiography of the Russian Revolution 100 Years On 733
Boris i. Kolonitskii
On Studying the 1917 Revolution: Autobiographical Confessions and Historiographical Predictions 751
Liudmila Novikova
The Russian Revolution from a Provincial Perspective 769
Reaction
Donald J. Raleigh
The Russian Revolution after All These 100 Years 787
Articles
Lars T. Lih
Letter from Afar, Corrections from Up Close: The Bolshevik Consensus of 1917 799
Susanne Schattenberg
Trust, Care, and Familiarity in the Politburo: Brezhnev’s Scenarios of Power 835
Forum: Does Economic History Matter?
George Grantham
Economic History in a Russian Manner: The Gaidar Variations 859
Reaction
Richard Ericson
Economic History, Economic Theory, and Soviet Institutions 891
History and Historians
Leonid Gorizontov
Anatolii Remnev and the Regions of the Russian Empire 901
Review Forum: Eurasian Borderlands and Empires—A Grand View
Brian P. Farrell
The Wide-Angle Lens? The Centrality of Russia in the Histories of Eurasia, Empires, and Borderlands 917
Peter C. Perdue
Geopolitics and Its Discontents 925
Huri Islamoglu
Is Eurasian State Building Reducible to Cultural Politics? 935
John P. Ledonne
Definitions, Methodology, and Arguments 943
Alfred J. Rieber
Response 951
Review Essay
Oleg Khlevniuk
No Total Totality: Forced Labor, Stalinism, and De-Stalinization 961
Reviews
Theodore R. Weeks
Higher Education for Imperial Russian Jews 975
Lynn Ellen Patyk
Ambivalent reflections—Obshchestvo in the Time of Terrorism 980
Daniel Leese
Identity Discourses and the Sino-Soviet Split 988
Stephen M. Norris
Soviet Sound 997
Katherine Zubovich
Housing and Meaning in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia 1003
In Memoriam
Simon Dixon
Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014) 1013
Contributors to This Issue 1020