Kritika Volume 5 No.4

Contents

From the Editors
Post-Post Historiography, or the Trends of the "Naughts" [p. 645]

Ex Tempore
Stalinism and the "Great Retreat"

DAVID L. HOFFMANN
Was There a ÒGreat RetreatÓ from Soviet Socialism? Stalinist Culture Reconsidered (p. 651)

EVGENY DOBRENKO
Socialism as Will and Representation, or What Legacy Are We Rejecting? (p. 675)

JEFFREY BROOKS
Declassifying a ÒClassicÓ (p. 709)

MATTHEW E. LENOE
In Defense of Timasheff Õs Great Retreat (p. 721)

DAVID L. HOFFMANN
Ideological Ballast and New Directions in Soviet History (p. 731)

Review Essays

THEODORE R. WEEKS
Identity in Late Imperial Russia Nation, Culture, Politics (p. 735)

FRANK WCISLO
Sergei Witte and His Times A Historiographical Note (p. 749)

MARC RAEFF
Letters across the Ocean (p. 759)

Reviews

CATHY POTTER
Iurii Petrovich Zaretskii, Avtobiograficheskie ÒIaÓ ot Avgustina do Avvakuma: Ocherki istorii samosoznaniia evropeiskogo individa [The Autobiographical ÒIÓ from Augustine to Avvakum: Essays in the History of Individual Self-Consciousness in Europe] (p. 775)

DANIEL H. KAISER
Nataliia Vadimovna Kozlova, ed., Gorodskaia sem«ia XVIII veka: Semeino-pravovye akty kuptsov i raznochintsev Moskvy [The 18th-Century Urban Family: Legal Documents of Moscow Merchant and Professional Families] (p. 779)

BRADLEY D. WOODWORTH
El«mira Petrovna Fedosova, Rossiia i Pribaltika: Kul«turnyi dialog. Vtoraia polovina XIXÐnachalo XX veka [Russia and the Baltic Region: A Cultural Dialogue, Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries] (p. 791)

DAVID ALAN RICH
Evgenii Iur«evich Sergeev, ÒInaia zemlia, inoe neboÉÓ : Zapad i voennaia elita Rossii, 1900Ð1914 gg. [ÒAnother Land, Another SkyÓ: The West and RussiaÕs Military Elite, 1900Ð1914] (p. 797)

MICHAEL D. GORDIN
Martine Mespoulet, Statistique et rŽvolution en Russie: Un compromis impossible (1880Ð1930) [Statistics and Revolution in Russia: An Impossible Compromise (1880Ð1930)]; Alain Blum and Martine Mespoulet, LÕanarchie bureaucratique: Statistique et pouvoir sous Staline [Bureaucratic Anarchy: Statistics and Power under Stalin] (p. 803)

IRINA SIROTKINA
Manfred Khainemann [Heinemann] and Eduard Kolchinskii, eds., Za Òzheleznym zanavesomÓ: Mify i realii sovetskoi nauki [Behind the ÒIron CurtainÓ: Myths and Realities of Soviet Science]; Alexei Kojevnikov, guest editor, in collaboration with Snait Gissis, ÒScience in Russian Contexts,Ó special issue of Science in Context ; Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov, ed., Vlast« i nauka, uchenye i vlast«: 1880-eÐ nachalo 1920-kh godov. Materialy mezhdunarodnogo nauchnogo kollokviuma [Power and Science, Scientists and Power: 1880sÐEarly 1920s. Materials of an International Scholarly Colloquium] (p. 811)

In Memoriam

MARK D. STEINBERG
Reginald E. Zelnik (1936Ð2004) (p. 819)

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