Kritika Volume 19 No.2

Contents
From the Editors
The Black Sea World and the Question of Boundaries      237

Forum: Food, Wine, and Leisure in the Black Sea Region

Diane P. Koenker
The Taste of Others
Soviet Adventures in Cosmopolitan Cuisines      243

Carol B. Stevens
Shabo
Wine and Prosperity on the Russian Steppe      273

Stephen V. Bittner

A Problem of Taste
An American Connoisseur’s Travels through the Soviet Union’s Black Sea Vineyards and Wineries      305

Johanna Conterio
“Our Black Sea Coast”
The Sovietization of the Black Sea Littoral under Khrushchev and the Problem of Overdevelopment      327
 

Articles

Igor Fedyukin
The “German” Reign of Empress Anna
Russia’s Disciplinary Moment? 363
 

Malte Rolf
Between State Building and Local Cooperation
Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864–1915     385
 

History and Historians
An Interview with Robert Edelman    417
 

Review Essay
Alexandra Oberländer
Beam Me Up/Out/Somewhere, Tovarishch
Negotiating the Everyday in Late Socialism     433
 

Reviews
Damien Tricoire
Diplomacy, Ceremonial, and Culture in Early Modern Russia     445

Mustafa Tuna
Loyalty and Negotiation in the Russian Empire     454

Contributors to This Issue    460