Kritika Volume 17 No.3
Contents
From the Editors
Revisiting Old Wars 489
Forum: Soviet Central Asia in and after World War II
Moritz Florin
Becoming Soviet through War
The Kyrgyz and the Great Fatherland War 495
Charles Shaw
Soldiers’ Letters to Inobatxon and O’g’ulxon
Gender and Nationality in the Birth of a Soviet Romantic Culture 517
Timothy Nunan
A Union Reframed
Sovinformbiuro, Postwar Soviet Photography, and Visual Orders in Soviet Central Asia 553
Artemy M. Kalinovsky
Central Planning, Local Knowledge?
Labor, Population, and the “Tajik School of Economics” 585
Reaction
Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Central Asian History as Soviet History 621
Review Essays
Julia Leikin
Across the Seven Seas
Is Russian Maritime History More Than Regional History? 631
Jared McBride
Who’s Afraid of Ukrainian Nationalism? 647
Anna Ivanova
Socialist Consumption and Brezhnev’s Stagnation
A Reappraisal of Late Communist Everyday Life 665
Reviews
David L. Ransel
Imperial Property Law and Its Consequences 679
Eric Lohr
The Russian Army in World War I 688
Scott Gehlbach
Taxes and Citizenship, 1850s–1920s 698
Vladimir Solonari
Soviet Foreign Relations “Hard” and “Soft,” 1917–45 702
Contributors to This Issue 712