Kritika Volume 17 No.2
Contents
From the Editors
The Vibrant 18th Century 237
Forum: Decrees and the Limits of Autocracy in 18th-Century Russia
Evgenii V. Akelev
The Barber of All Russia
Lawmaking, Resistance, and Mutual Adaptation during
Peter the Great’s Cultural Reforms 241
Sergey Chernikov
Noble Landownership in 18th-Century Russia
Revisiting the Economic and Sociopolitical Consequences of
Partible Inheritance 277
Elena Marasinova
Punishment by Penance in 18th-Century Russia
Church Practices in the Service of the Secular State 305
Lorenz Erren
Feofan Prokopovich’s Pravda voli monarshei as Fundamental Law
of the Russian Empire 333
Reaction
Richard S. Wortman
Intentions and Realities in 18th-Century Monarchy
New Insights and Discoveries 361
History and Historians
Interview with William Craft Brumfield Faded Glory in Full Color
Russia’s Architectural History 379
David L. Ransel
From the Del ́vig House to the Gas-Scraper
The Fight to Preserve St. Petersburg 405
Review Essays
Michael D. Gordin
Reflexivity and the Russian Professoriate 433
Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi
Beyond the Binaries
The Postwar Soviet Intelligentsia in History and Memory 447
Reviews
George G. Weickhardt
Criminal Law in Muscovy 461
Jonathan W. Daly
Perlustration in Imperial Russia 466
François-Xavier Nérard
Stalinism as Traditional Political Culture 475
Letters
Justin Yoo
To the Editors 483
Isaac Scarborough
To the Editors 484
Contributors to This Issue 486