Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.
Journal Details
- Frequency: One volume (four issues) per year
- ISSN/eISSN: 1531-023X/1538-5000
- Website: http://kritika.georgetown.edu/
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Historical Abstracts, ISI Alerting Service, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, Modern Language Association, Wilson Humanities Full Text, Wilson OmniFile Full Text
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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
Contents
From the Editors
Within and Beyond the Ivory Tower
Worlds without Nationalist Blinders 1
Forum: A Different World Order? The USSR and the Global South
Masha Kirasirova
The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration
The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East 7
Samuel J. Hirst
Soviet Orientalism across Borders
Documentary Film for the Turkish Republic 35
Katerina Clark
Indian Leftist Writers of the 1930s Maneuver among India, London, and Moscow
The Case of Mulk Raj Anand and His Patron Ralph Fox 63
Reaction
Bruce Grant
Communist Internationals 89
Articles
Charles J. Halperin
Contemporary Russian Perceptions of Ivan IV’s Oprichnina 95
Claire Knight
Enemy Films on Soviet Screens
Trophy Films during the Early Cold War, 1947–52 125
Review Essays
Ian W. Campbell Writing Imperial Lives
Biography, Autobiography, and Microhistory 151
Ilya Kukulin
Russian Literature on the Shoah
New Approaches and Contexts 165
Dietrich Beyrau
A Bird’s Eye View of Soviet and World Communism 177
Reviews
Mary Schaeffer Conroy
Imperial Russia’s Civil Society, 1750–1917 193
Kirill Rossiianov
Ivan Pavlov and the Moral Physiology of Self 203
Frank Henschel
Youth Cultures in Eastern Europe 210
Vladimir Solonari
Stalinist Purges during and after World War II as Retribution 216
In Memoriam
Paul W. Werth
Thomas Barrett (1960–2016) 222
Contributors to This Issue 226
Contents
From the Editors
Across and Beyond
Rethinking Transnational History 715
Articles
Wim Coudenys
Translation and the Emergence of History as an Academic Discipline in 18th-Century Russia 721
Ellie R. Schainker
On Faith and Fanaticism
Converts from Judaism and the Limits of Toleration in Late Imperial Russia 753
Grégory Dufaud and Lara Rzesnitzek
Soviet Psychiatry through the Prism of Circulation
The Case of Outpatient Psychiatry in the Interwar Period 781
Franziska Exeler
What Did You Do during the War?
Personal Responses to the Aftermath of Nazi Occupation 805
Donald J. Raleigh
“Soviet” Man of Peace
Leonid Il ́ich Brezhnev and His Diaries 837
Review Article
Paul W. Werth
Conformity and Defiance in a Religious Key 869
Review Essay
Christoph Witzenrath
Closing Gaps or Digging Holes?
Linking Imperial Frontiers in the 18th and 19th Centuries 897
Reviews
Darius Staliunas
Poland in the Russian Empire 909
Jörn Happel
Spies and Diplomats in US Soviet Policy 918
Karl Schlögel
Crossing Intellectual Borders 926
Contributors to This Issue 930
Contents
From the Editors
Revisiting Old Wars 489
Forum: Soviet Central Asia in and after World War II
Moritz Florin
Becoming Soviet through War
The Kyrgyz and the Great Fatherland War 495
Charles Shaw
Soldiers’ Letters to Inobatxon and O’g’ulxon
Gender and Nationality in the Birth of a Soviet Romantic Culture 517
Timothy Nunan
A Union Reframed
Sovinformbiuro, Postwar Soviet Photography, and Visual Orders in Soviet Central Asia 553
Artemy M. Kalinovsky
Central Planning, Local Knowledge?
Labor, Population, and the “Tajik School of Economics” 585
Reaction
Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Central Asian History as Soviet History 621
Review Essays
Julia Leikin
Across the Seven Seas
Is Russian Maritime History More Than Regional History? 631
Jared McBride
Who’s Afraid of Ukrainian Nationalism? 647
Anna Ivanova
Socialist Consumption and Brezhnev’s Stagnation
A Reappraisal of Late Communist Everyday Life 665
Reviews
David L. Ransel
Imperial Property Law and Its Consequences 679
Eric Lohr
The Russian Army in World War I 688
Scott Gehlbach
Taxes and Citizenship, 1850s–1920s 698
Vladimir Solonari
Soviet Foreign Relations “Hard” and “Soft,” 1917–45 702
Contributors to This Issue 712
Contents
From the Editors
The Vibrant 18th Century 237
Forum: Decrees and the Limits of Autocracy in 18th-Century Russia
Evgenii V. Akelev
The Barber of All Russia
Lawmaking, Resistance, and Mutual Adaptation during
Peter the Great’s Cultural Reforms 241
Sergey Chernikov
Noble Landownership in 18th-Century Russia
Revisiting the Economic and Sociopolitical Consequences of
Partible Inheritance 277
Elena Marasinova
Punishment by Penance in 18th-Century Russia
Church Practices in the Service of the Secular State 305
Lorenz Erren
Feofan Prokopovich’s Pravda voli monarshei as Fundamental Law
of the Russian Empire 333
Reaction
Richard S. Wortman
Intentions and Realities in 18th-Century Monarchy
New Insights and Discoveries 361
History and Historians
Interview with William Craft Brumfield Faded Glory in Full Color
Russia’s Architectural History 379
David L. Ransel
From the Del ́vig House to the Gas-Scraper
The Fight to Preserve St. Petersburg 405
Review Essays
Michael D. Gordin
Reflexivity and the Russian Professoriate 433
Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi
Beyond the Binaries
The Postwar Soviet Intelligentsia in History and Memory 447
Reviews
George G. Weickhardt
Criminal Law in Muscovy 461
Jonathan W. Daly
Perlustration in Imperial Russia 466
François-Xavier Nérard
Stalinism as Traditional Political Culture 475
Letters
Justin Yoo
To the Editors 483
Isaac Scarborough
To the Editors 484
Contributors to This Issue 486