Kritika Volume 18 No.2
Contents
From the Editors
On the Centenary of Revolution 229
Articles
Alexander V. Maiorov
Prince Mikhail of Chernigov
From Maneuverer to Martyr 237
Mustafa Tuna
“Pillars of the Nation”
The Making of a Russian Muslim Intelligentsia and the Origins of Jadidism 257
Sören Urbansky and Helena Barop
Under the Red Star’s Faint Light
How Sakhalin Became Soviet 283
Molly Pucci
Translating the State
Czechoslovakia’s Search for the Soviet Model of the Secret Police, 1945–52 317
Ex Tempore: Did the Working Class Matter in 1917?
An Introduction from the Editors 345
Boris N. Mironov
Cannon Fodder for the Revolution
The Russian Proletariat in 1917 351
Sarah Badcock
Interrogating Working-Class Lives
Evidence in Social History 371
Diane P. Koenker
Talkin’ about Class Formation 377
William G. Rosenberg
On Cannon Fodder and Straw Men 389
Response
Boris N. Mironov
The Workers Question and Revolutionary Gamesmanship in 1917 401
Review Essay
Norihiro Naganawa
Transimperial Muslims, the Modernizing State, and Local Politics in the Late Imperial Volga-Ural Region 417
Reviews
Boris Belge
Between Party and People(s)—Where Music Sounds 437
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Both Sides Now 444
Contributors to This Issue 450