Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

From the Editors

An Interview with Geoffrey A. Hosking . . . 257
Articles

RICHARD WORTMAN
The Representation of Dynasty and “Fundamental Laws” in the Evolution of Russian Monarchy . . . 265

FAITH HILLIS
Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia’s Southwestern Borderlands . . . 301

ALEXANDER MORRISON
Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire . . . 327

DAVID BRANDENBERGER
“Simplistic, Pseudosocialist Racism”: Debates over the Direction of Soviet Ideology within Stalin’s Creative Intelligentsia, 1936–39 . . . 365

SETH BERNSTEIN
Valedictorians of the Soviet School: Professionalization and the Impact of War in Soviet Chess . . . 395
Forum: Empire, Nation, and Society in the Work of Geoffrey Hosking

ALEXEI MILLER
Nation and Empire: Reflections in the Margins of Geoffrey Hosking’s Book . . . 419

ADRIENNE EDGAR
Rulers and Victims Reconsidered: Geoffrey Hosking and the Russians of the Soviet Union . . . 429

MARK EDELE
Stalinism as a Totalitarian Society: Geoffrey Hosking’s Socio-Cultural History . . . 441

CATRIONA KELLY
“The Communal Experience”: The Role of Groups in Geoffrey Hosking’s Understanding of Russian Society . . . 453

GEOFFREY A. HOSKING
Response . . . 459
Errata . . . 466
Reviews

CHARLES J. HALPERIN
V. N. Temushev, Gomel´skaia zemlia v kontse XV–pervoi polovine XVI v.: Territorial´nye transformatsii v pogranichnom regione (The Gomel´ Land in the Late 15th and First Half of the 16th Centuries: Territorial Transformation in a Border Region); M. M. Krom, “Vdovstvuiushchee tsarstvo”: Politicheskii krizis v Rossii 30–40-kh godov XVI veka (The “Widowed Kingdom”: The Political Crisis in Russia during the 1530s and 1540s) . . . 467

NIKOLAY MITROKHIN
Aleksei Beglov, V poiskakh “Bezgreshnykh katakomb”: Tserkovnoe podpol´e v SSSR (In Search of “Sinless Catacombs”: The Church Underground in the USSR) . . . 476

MAYHILL C. FOWLER
Iurii Shapoval, ed., Poliuvannia na Val´dshnepa: Rozsekrechenyi Mykola Khvyl´ovyi (Hunting for “Woodcock”: Mykola Khvyl´ovyi Declassified) . . . 491

OKSANA NAGORNAYA
Iren Andreeva, Chastnaia zhizn´ pri sotsializme: Otchet sovetskogo obyvatelia (Private Life under Socialism: The Account of an Ordinary Soviet Person); Oleg Leibovich, V gorode M: Ocherki politicheskoi povsednevnosti sovetskoi provintsii v 40–50-kh gg. (In the Town of M: Essays on Everyday Political Life in the Soviet Provinces in the 1940s and 1950s) . . . 501
Contributors to This Issue . . . 506

From the Editors

What Makes a “Big Book”? . . . 1
Forum: The Soviet Order at Home and Abroad, 1939–61

AMIR WEINER AND AIGI RAHI-TAMM
Getting to Know You: The Soviet Surveillance System, 1939–57 . . . 5

ALEXEY TIKHOMIROV
Symbols of Power in Rituals of Violence: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm on the Soviet Empire’s Periphery (East Germany, 1945–61) . . . 47

JEFFREY S. HARDY
“The Camp Is Not a Resort”: The Campaign against Privileges in the Soviet Gulag, 1957–61 . . . 89
Forum: The Soviet First Person

ANDREW B. STONE
“The Differences Were Only in the Details”: The Moral Equivalency of Stalinism and Nazism in Anatolii Bakanichev’s Twelve Years behind Barbed Wire . . . 123

BENJAMIN TROMLY
Intelligentsia Self-Fashioning in the Postwar Soviet Union: Revol´t Pimenov’s Political Struggle, 1949–57 . . . 151

BENJAMIN NATHANS
Thawed Selves: A Commentary on the Soviet First Person . . . 177
Classics in Retrospect

ADDIS MASON
Isaiah Berlin’s Russian Thinkers and the Argument for Inclusion . . . 185
Review Essays

DONALD OSTROWSKI
Inner Asia: Empires and Silk Roads . . . 201

MIKHAIL LOUKIANOV AND MIKHAIL SUSLOV
Defenders of the Motherland or Defenders of the Autocracy? . . . 217
Reviews

ANTON FEDYASHIN
Andrei Borisovich Zubov, ed., Istoriia Rossii: XX vek [A History of Russia: The 20th Century], 2 vols. . . . 233

ALEXEI KOJEVNIKOV
Jay Bergman, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov . . . 243
Letters

KEVIN MURPHY
To the Editors . . . 251
Contributors to This Issue . . . 253

From the Editors

Ten Years after the “Remarkable Decade” . . . 769
Articles

EVE LEVIN
Muscovy and Its Mythologies: Pre-Petrine History in the Past Decade . . . 773

MARTINA WINKLER
Rulers and Ruled, 1700–1917 . . . 789

VICTORIA FREDE
Russian Intellectual History since 1991: Overcoming the Left–Right
Divide . . . 807

WILLARD SUNDERLAND
What Is Asia to Us? Scholarship on the Tsarist “East” since the 1990s . . . 817

SUSAN SMITH-PETER
Bringing the Provinces into Focus: Subnational Spaces in the Recent Historiography of Russia . . . 835

PAUL W. WERTH
Lived Orthodoxy and Confessional Diversity: The Last Decade on Religion in Modern Russia . . . 849

MARK VON HAGEN
New Directions in Military History, 1900–1950: Questions of Total War and Colonial War . . . 867

MICHAEL DAVID-FOX
The Implications of Transnationalism . . . 885

MIRIAM DOBSON
The Post-Stalin Era: De-Stalinization, Daily Life, and Dissent . . . 905

JANE R. ZAVISCA
Explaining and Interpreting the End of Soviet Rule . . . 925
History and Historians

BEN EKLOF
Interview with Professor Alter L´vovich Litvin (Department of History, Kazan´ State Federal University) . . . 941
Review Essay

CLARE GRIFFIN
Russia and Early Modern European Medicine . . . 967
Review Forum: Metropolitans, Monks, and the End of the World

MIKHAIL MAIZULS
Mountain Last Judgment and Rural Apocalypse: Patterns of Imagery . . . 983

ANNE KLEIMOLA
Power, Sainthood, and the Art of Myth . . . 992
In Memoriam

MARK BASSIN, MARSHALL POE, AND THEODORE R. WEEKS
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011) . . . 1005
Letters

PAVEL V. LUKIN
On Deconstruction and Ethnicity . . . 1010

With a response by EDWARD L. KEENAN
Contributors to This Issue . . . 1013

From the Editors

Coming of Age . . . 525
Forum: Technologies of Communication

SIMON FRANKLIN
Mapping the Graphosphere: Cultures of Writing in Early 19th-Century Russia (and Before) . . . 531

CHRISTOPHER STOLARSKI
Another Way of Telling the News: The Rise of Photojournalism in Russia, 1900–1914 . . . 561

STEPHEN LOVELL
How Russia Learned to Listen: Radio and the Making of Soviet Culture . . . 591

CHRISTINE EVANS
Song of the Year and Soviet Mass Culture in the 1970s . . . 617
Article

LYUBA GRINBERG
From Mongol Prince to Russian Saint: A Neglected 15th-Century Russian Source on the Mongol Land Consecration Ritual . . . 647
Review Forum: The Sovietologists

PETER KENEZ
A History of Our Profession . . . 675

LYNNE VIOLA
The Cold War within the Cold War . . . 682

VLADIMIR KONTOROVICH
A Child, Not a Tool, of the Cold War . . . 691
Review Essays

ADELE LINDENMEYR
“Primordial and Gelatinous”? Civil Society in Imperial Russia . . . 705

MICHAEL DAVID-FOX
Opiate of the Intellectuals? Pilgrims, Partisans, and Political Tourists . . . 721

YANNI KOTSONIS
Ordinary People in Russian and Soviet History . . . 739
In Memoriam

JOCHEN HELLBECK AND PETER HOLQUIST
Leopold Haimson (1927–2010) . . . 755
Contributors to This Issue . . . 766

From the Editors

Models, Margins, and Imperial Entanglements . . . 275
Articles

GÁBOR ÁGOSTON
Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500–1800 . . . 281

VICTOR TAKI
Orientalism on the Margins: The Ottoman Empire under Russian Eyes . . . 321

EKATERINA PRAVILOVA
The Property of Empire: Islamic Law and Russian Agrarian Policy in Transcaucasia and Turkestan . . . 353

HANS-LUKAS KIESER
World War and World Revolution: Alexander Helphand-Parvus in Germany and Turkey . . . 387

MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS
Abdürrezzak Bedirhan: Ottoman Kurd and Russophile in the Twilight of Empire . . . 411

ADEEB KHALID
Central Asia between the Ottoman and the Soviet Worlds . . . 451
Reactions

ANDREAS KAPPELER
Spaces of Entanglement . . . 477

FARIBA ZARINEBAF
Models: A View from the Ottoman Margin . . . 489
Reviews

EDWARD L. KEENAN
Ildar H. Garipzanov, Patrick J. Geary, and Przemysław Urbańczyk, eds., Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe; Omelian (Omeljan) Pritsak, Pokhodzhennia Rusi (The Origin of Rus´), 2 vols.; Tat´iana L. Vilkul, Liudi i kniaz´ v drevnerusskikh letopisiakh serediny XI–XIII vv. (The People and the Prince in Old Russian Chronicles from the Mid-11th to the 13th Centuries) . . . 501

DENIS VOVCHENKO
Angelina Vacheva, Romanut na Imperatritsata: Romanoviiat diskurs v avtobiografichnite zapiski na Ekaterina II. Rakursi na chetene prez vtorata polovina na XIX vek (The Empress’s Novel: Novelistic Discourse in Catherine the Great’s Memoirs. Approaches to Reading in the Second Half of the 19th Century) . . . 510

JULIE HESSLER
Elena Osokina, Zoloto dlia industrializatsii: TORGSIN (Gold for Industrialization: TORGSIN) . . . 518
Contributors to This Issue . . . 523