Kritika Volume 6 No.1

Contents

From the Editors
The Rule of Law in Russia
Invitation to a Discussion on e-Kritika (p. 1)

Forum: Monumental Stalinist Publications

ELAINE MACKINNON
Writing History for Stalin Isaak Izrailevich Mints and the Istoriia grazhdanskoi voiny (p. 5)

BRIAN KASSOF
A Book of Socialism Stalinist Culture and the First Edition of the Bol'shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia (p. 55)

Reaction

SERHY YEKELCHYK
The Archeology of Bolshevik Knowledge, or the Birth of Stalinism from the Spirit of Grand Cultural Projects (p. 97)

Review Forum: The Revival of Russian Conservatism

G. M. HAMBURG
The Revival of Russian Conservatism (p. 107)

MIKHAIL LOUKIANOV
The Rise and Fall of the All-Russian National Union (p. 129)

JOHANNES REMY
Russian Conservatism in Its International Context (p. 135)

Review Article

RICHARD WORTMAN
Russian Monarchy and the Rule of Law New Considerations of the Court Reform of 1864 (p. 145)

Review Essays

ALEXANDER ETKIND
Soviet Subjectivity Torture for the Sake of Salvation? (p. 171)

DAVID BRANDENBERGER
StalinÕs Last Crime? Recent Scholarship on Postwar Soviet Antisemitism and the Doctors' Plot (p. 187)

Reviews

RUSSELL E. MARTIN
Margarita Evgen'evna Bychkova and Maksim Igorevich Smirnov, Genealogiia v Rossii: Istoriia i perspektivy [Genealogy in Russia: History and Perspectives]; Iurii Moiseevich Eskin, Mestnichestvo v Rossii XVIÐXVII vv.: Khronologicheskii reestr [Precedence in Russia in the 16th and 17th Centuries: A Chronological Register]; Nancy Shields Kollmann, By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (p. 205)

W. F. RYAN
A. N. Filimon, Iakov Brius [James Bruce]; Aleksandr Kiriukhin, Tot samyi kudesnik Brius [That Magician Bruce] (p. 217)

CORINNE GAUDIN
Viktor Grigor«evich Tiukavkin, Velikorusskoe krest«ianstvo i stolypinskaia agrarnaia reforma [The Great Russian Peasantry and the Stolypin Agricultural Reform] (p. 223)

SERGEI KAPTEREV
Liudmila Dzhulai, Dokumental«nyi illiuzion: Otechestvennyi kinodokumentalizmÑopyty sotsial«nogo tvorchestva [Documentary Illusion: Russian Film Documentaries as Experiments in Social Creativity]; Roza Dmitrievna Kopylova et al., eds., Poetika kino (2-e izdanie): Perechityvaia ÒPoetiku kinoÓ [The Poetics of Cinema (2nd ed.): Rereading The Poetics of Cinema]; Nikolai A. Izvolov, Fenomen kino: Istoriia i teoriia [The Phenomenon of Cinema: History and Theory] (p. 231)

ILYA VINKOVETSKY
Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970Ð2000 ; Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West ; Iurii M. Baturin et al., Epokha El«tsina: Ocherki politicheskoi istorii [The Yeltsin Era: Essays in Political History] (p. 241)

Contributors To This Issue