Kritika Volume 7 No.1

Contents

From the Editors
Better Shorter, but Better (p. 1)

Forum: Mercy, Power, and Law in Muscovite and Imperial Russia

NANCY S. KOLLMANN
The Quality of Mercy in Early Modern Legal Practice (p. 5)

JANE BURBANK
Mercy, Punishment, and Law: The Qualities of Justice at
Township Courts (p. 23)

Reaction

ELISE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER
Russian Legal Culture and the Rule of Law (p. 61)

Review Article

G. M. HAMBURG
Writing History and the End of the Soviet Era: The Secret Lives
of Natan Eidel´man (p. 71)

Review Essay

WILLARD SUNDERLAND
The Caucasian Tangle (p. 111)

Reviews

LINDSEY HUGHES
Iu. N. Bespiatykh and V. I. Gineva, eds., Peterburg v epokhu Petra I: Dokumenty v fondakh i kollektsiiakh Nauchno-istoricheskogo arkhiva Sankt-Peterburgskogo instituta istorii. Katalog, chast´ 1 [St. Petersburg in the Era of Peter I: Documents in the Fonds and Collections of the Archive for Historical Scholarship, St. Petersburg Institute of History. Catalogue, pt. 1]; A. A. Preobrazhenskii et al., eds.,Pis´ma i bumagi imperatora Petra Velikogo, t. 13, vyp. 2 [The Letters and Papers of Emperor Peter the Great, vol. 13, pt. 2]; I. N. Lebedeva, Biblioteka Petra I: Opisanie rukopisnykh knig [The Library of Peter I: A Description of the Manuscript Books] (p. 123)

DOMINIC LIEVEN
V. M. Bezotosnyi et al., eds., Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda: Entsiklopediia [The Great Patriotic War of 1812: An Encyclopedia] (p. 133)

DIANE KOENKER
Matthias Heeke, Reisen zu den Sowjets: Der ausländische Tourismus in Rußland 1921–1941. Mit einem bio-bibliographischen Anhang zu 96 deutschen Reiseautoren [Travel to the Soviets: Foreign Tourism in Russia, 1921–1941, with a Bio-bibliographical Appendix on 96 German
Travel-Writers] (p. 137)

MARTIN J. BLACKWELL
Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland; Fedir Pihido-Pravoberezhnyi, “Velyka Vitchyzniana Viina”: Spohady ta rozdumy ochevydtsia [“The Great Patriotic War”: The Memoirs and Thoughts of an Eyewitness]; Dmytro Malakov, Oti dva roky…: U Kyivi pry nimtsiakh [Those Two Years...: In Kyiv under the Germans]; Karel C. Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule (p. 143)

ANITA SETH
Aleksei Georgievich Borzenkov, Molodezh´ i politika: Vozmozhnosti i
predely studencheskoi samodeiatel´nosti na vostoke Rossii (1961–1991 gg.). [Youth and Politics: The Possibilities and Limits of Student Activity
in the Russian East (1961–1991)] (p. 153)

To the Editors

PAVEL POLIAN (159)

Contributors To This Issue