Kritika Volume 18 No.1
Contents
From the Editors
Within and Beyond the Ivory Tower
Worlds without Nationalist Blinders 1
Forum: A Different World Order? The USSR and the Global South
Masha Kirasirova
The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration
The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East 7
Samuel J. Hirst
Soviet Orientalism across Borders
Documentary Film for the Turkish Republic 35
Katerina Clark
Indian Leftist Writers of the 1930s Maneuver among India, London, and Moscow
The Case of Mulk Raj Anand and His Patron Ralph Fox 63
Reaction
Bruce Grant
Communist Internationals 89
Articles
Charles J. Halperin
Contemporary Russian Perceptions of Ivan IV’s Oprichnina 95
Claire Knight
Enemy Films on Soviet Screens
Trophy Films during the Early Cold War, 1947–52 125
Review Essays
Ian W. Campbell Writing Imperial Lives
Biography, Autobiography, and Microhistory 151
Ilya Kukulin
Russian Literature on the Shoah
New Approaches and Contexts 165
Dietrich Beyrau
A Bird’s Eye View of Soviet and World Communism 177
Reviews
Mary Schaeffer Conroy
Imperial Russia’s Civil Society, 1750–1917 193
Kirill Rossiianov
Ivan Pavlov and the Moral Physiology of Self 203
Frank Henschel
Youth Cultures in Eastern Europe 210
Vladimir Solonari
Stalinist Purges during and after World War II as Retribution 216
In Memoriam
Paul W. Werth
Thomas Barrett (1960–2016) 222
Contributors to This Issue 226