Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

From the Editors

Against Falsification, and a Changing of the Guard . . . 747

Forum: Internal Enemies and External Influences—Stalin-Era Cinema

ANDREY SHCHERBENOK
The Enemy, the Communist, and Ideological Closure in Soviet Cinema
on the Eve of the Great Terror (The Peasants and The Party Card) . . . 753
SERGEI KAPTEREV
Illusionary Spoils: Soviet Attitudes toward American Cinema during
the Early Cold War . . . 779

Reaction

JULIAN GRAFFY
Writing about the Cinema of the Stalin Years: The State of the Art . . . 809

Ex Tempore: Toward a New Orthodoxy? The Politics of History in Russia Today

DAVID BRANDENBERGER
A New Short Course? A. V. Filippov and the Russian State’s Search
for a “Usable Past” . . . 825

VLADIMIR SOLONARI
Normalizing Russia, Legitimizing Putin . . . 835

BORIS N. MIRONOV
The Fruits of a Bourgeois Education . . . 847

ELENA ZUBKOVA
The Filippov Syndrome . . . 861

Review Article

NIKOLAY MITROKHIN
“Strange People” in the Politburo: Institutional Problems and
the Human Factor in the Economic Collapse of the Soviet Empire . . . 869

Review Essays

LILIYA BEREZHNAYA
Does Ukraine Have a Church History? . . . 897

THEODORE R. WEEKS
Urban History in Eastern Europe . . . 917

KARSTEN BRÜGGEMANN
Russia and the Baltic Countries: Recent Russian-Language Literature . . . 935

Reviews

DAVID B. MILLER
Nikolai Nikolaevich Pokrovskii and Gail D. Lenhoff, eds. Stepennaia kniga tsarskogo rodosloviia po drevneishim spiskam: Teksty i kommentarii [“The Book of Degrees of the Tsars’ Genealogy” according to the Oldest Manuscripts: Texts and Commentary], 3 vols., 1: Zhitie sviatoi kniagini Ol´gi, Stepeni I–X [The Life of Princess St. Ol´ga; Degrees 1–10]; Aleksei Vladimirovich Sirenov, Stepennaia kniga: Istoriia teksta [The Book of Degrees: History of a Text] . . . 957

ANDREW A. GENTES
Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, and Willard Sunderland, eds., Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History; L. M. Dameshek and A. V. Remnev, Sibir´ v sostave Rossiiskoi imperii [Siberia as Part of the Russian Empire] . . . 963

BARBARA ALPERN ENGEL
Irina Iukina, Russkii feminizm kak vyzov sovremennosti [Russian
Feminism as a Challenge of Modernity] . . . 974

KEVIN MCDERMOTT
Paul R. Gregory, Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives; Stenogrammy zasedanii Politbiuro TsK RKP(b)–VKP(b), 1923–1938 gg. [Stenograms of the Meetings of the Politburo of the CC RCP(b)–AUCP, 1923–38], 3 vols. . . . 982

ANTON FEDYASHIN
Nataliia Narochnitskaia, Rossiia i russkie v mirovoi istorii [Russia and the Russians in World History]; Narochnitskaia, Russkii mir
[The Russian World]; Narochnitskaia, Za chto i s kem my voevali
[For What and with Whom We Fought] . . . 992

In Memoriam

DANIEL H. KAISER
Richard Hellie (1937–2009) . . . 999

Contributors to This Issue . . . 1007

Erratum . . . 1010

From the Editors

Entangled Histories in the Age of Extremes . . . 415

Introduction

DIETRICH BEYRAU
Mortal Embrace: Germans and (Soviet) Russians in the First Half of the 20th Century . . . 423

Articles

LAURA ENGELSTEIN
“A Belgium of Our Own”: The Sack of Russian Kalisz, August 1914 . . . 441

OXANA NAGORNAJA
United by Barbed Wire: Russian POWs in Germany, National Stereotypes, and International Relations, 1914–22 . . . 475

BERT HOPPE
Iron Revolutionaries and Salon Socialists: Bolsheviks and German Communists in the 1920s and 1930s . . . 499

JAN C. BEHRENDS
Back from the USSR: The Anti-Comintern’s Publications on Soviet Russia in Nazi Germany (1935–41) . . . 527

PETER FRITZSCHE
Return to Soviet Russia: Edwin Erich Dwinger and the Narratives of Barbarossa . . . 557

JOCHEN HELLBECK
“The Diaries of Fritzes and the Letters of Gretchens”: Personal Writings from the German–Soviet War and Their Readers . . . 571

KATERINA CLARK
Ehrenburg and Grossman: Two Cosmopolitan Jewish Writers Reflect on Nazi Germany at War . . . 607

OLEG BUDNITSKII
The Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945 . . . 629

Reviews

W. M. REGER IV
T. A. Oparina, Inozemtsy v Rossii XVI–VII vv. [Foreigners in 16th- and 17th-Century Russia]; S. P. Orlenko, Vykhodtsy iz Zapadnoi Evropy v Rossii XVII veka: Pravovoi status i real´noe polozhenie [West European Immigrants to 17th-Century Russia: Legal Status and Actual Position] . . . 683

EKATERINA PRAVILOVA
Mikhail Nikolaevich Luk´ianov, Rossiiskii konservatizm i reforma, 1907–1914 [Russian Conservatism and Reform, 1907–14]; Richard Pipes, Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture . . . 693

ALEXANDRE SUMPF
Corinne Gaudin, Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia . . . 710

BRIGITTE STUDER
Bert Hoppe, In Stalins Gefolgschaft : Moskau und die KPD 1928–1933 [In Stalin’s Retinue: Moscow and the German Communist Party, 1928–33] . . . 719

VLADIMIR TISMANEANU
Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe . . . 724

STEVEN A. GRANT
Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova, eds., Russian Children’s Literature and Culture; Paula S. Fass et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, 3 vols.; Catriona Kelly, Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991; Izabella I. Shangina et al., eds., Russkie deti: Osnovy narodnoi pedagogiki. Illiustrirovannaia entsiklopediia [Russian Children: The Foundations of Popular Pedagogy. An Illustrated Encyclopedia] . . . 730

Contributors to This Issue . . . 743

From the Editors

An Interview with Alfred J. Rieber . . . 227

Articles

ALISON K. SMITH
National Cuisine and Nationalist Politics: V. F. Odoevskii and “Doctor Puf,” 1844–45 . . . 239

VERA TOLZ
Imperial Scholars and Minority Nationalisms in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia . . . 261

Review Essays

FRANCIS BUTLER
Four Perspectives on “Old Russia” (Rus´) . . . 291

SCOTT M. KENWORTHY
Monasticism in Russian History . . . 307

RICHARD BIDLACK
Lifting the Blockade on the Blockade: New Research on the Siege of Leningrad . . . 333

Reviews

SERGEI BOGATYREV
Andrei Alekseevich Bulychev, Mezhdu sviatymi i demonami: Zametki o posmertnoi sud´be opal´nykh tsaria Ivana Groznogo [Between Saints and Demons: Observations on the Posthumous Fate of Those Condemned by Tsar Ivan the Terrible]; Viacheslav Valentinovich Shaposhnik, Ivan Groznyi: Pervyi russkii tsar´ [Ivan the Terrible: The First Russian Tsar] . . . 353

MARY W. CAVENDER
Andrei Iur´evich Andreev, Russkie studenty v nemetskikh universitetakh XVIII–pervoi poloviny XIX veka [Russian Students in German Universities in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Centuries]; Ol´ga Iu. Solodiankina, Inostrannye guvernantki v Rossii (vtoraia polovina XVIII–pervaia polovina XIX vekov) [Foreign Governesses in Russia (Second Half of the 18th and First Half of the 19th Centuries)] . . . 362

EILEEN KANE
Oleg Rudol´fovich Airapetov, Vneshniaia politika Rossiiskoi imperii, 1801–1914 [The Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, 1801–1914]; Ronald P. Bobroff, Roads to Glory: Late Imperial Russia and the Turkish Straits . . . 368

STEPHAN MERL
David Feest, Zwangskollektivierung im Baltikum: Die Sowjetisierung des estnischen Dorfes 1944–1953 [Forced Collectivization in the Baltics: The Sovietization of the Estonian Village, 1944–53] . . . 376

AMIR WEINER
Vasily S. Grossman, A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945, trans. and ed. Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova . . . 387

SHEILA FITZPATRICK
Julia Herzberg und Christoph Schmidt, eds., Vom Wir zum Ich: Individuum und Autobiographik im Zarenreich [From We to I: The Individual and the Autobographical Genre in the Tsarist Empire]; Brigitte Studer and Heiko Haumann, eds., Stalinistische Subjekte/Sujets staliniens/Stalinist Subjects: Individuum und System in der Sowjetunion
und der Komintern, 1929–1953 [Individual and System in the Soviet Union and the Comintern, 1929–53] . . . 398

LEWIS SIEGELBAUM
Timothy Colton, Yeltsin, A Life . . . 406

Contributors to This Issue . . . 412

From the Editors

Failing the Grade: The Craze for Ranking Humanities Journals . . . 1

Articles

DANA SHERRY
Social Alchemy on the Black Sea Coast, 1860–65 . . . 7

FELIX WEMHEUER
Regime Changes of Memory: Creating the Official History of the Ukrainian and Chinese Famines under State Socialism and after the Cold War . . . 31

KAREL C. BERKHOFF
“Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population”: The Holocaust in
the Soviet Media, 1941–45 . . . 61

Review Forum: Occupiers and Eyewitnesses—The Holocaust in the East

CATHERINE EPSTEIN
Nazi Occupation Strategies . . . 107

DAVID SHNEER
Probing the Limits of Documentation . . . 121

ZOЁ WAXMAN
The Unknown Black Book . . . 135

Review Article

CLAUDIO SERGIO NUN INGERFLOM
Lenin Rediscovered, or Lenin Redisguised? . . . 139

Reviews

DAVID GOLDFRANK
Tom E. Dykstra, Russian Monastic Culture, “Josephism,” and the Iosifo-Volokolamsk Monastery, 1479–1607; Nikolai Konstantinovich Nikol´skii, Kirillo-Belozerskii monastyr´ i ego ustroistvo do vtoroi chetverti XVII veka (1397–1625) [The Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery and Its Organization up to the Second Quarter of the 17th Century (1397–1625)], 2 . . . 169

PAUL KEENAN
Tat´iana Vladimirovna Artem´eva, Ot slavnogo proshlogo k svetlomu budushchemu: filosofiia istorii i utopiia v Rossii epokhi Prosveshcheniia [From a Glorious Past to a Bright Future: Philosophy of History and Utopia in Russia in the Age of Enlightenment]; Vera Proskurina, Mify imperii: Literatura i vlast´ v epokhu Ekateriny II [Myths of Empire: Literature and Power in the Age of Catherine II] . . . 176

CHRIS J. CHULOS
M. A. Babkin, ed., Rossiiskoe dukhovenstvo i sverzhenie monarkhii v 1917 godu: Materialy i arkhivnye dokumenty po istorii Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi [The Russian Clergy and the Downfall of the Monarchy in 1917: Materials and Archival Documents on the History of the Russian Orthodox Church]; Iu. E. Kondakov, Gosudarstvo i pravoslavnaia tserkov´ v Rossii: Evoliutsiia otnoshenii v pervoi polovine XIX veka [The State and the Orthodox Church in Russia: The Evolution of Relations in the First Half of the 19th Century]; Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman, eds., Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia; Sergei I. Zhuk, Russia’s Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830–1917 . . . 184

DEBORAH YALEN
Arkadii Zel´tser, Evrei sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki 1917–1941 [Jews of the Soviet Provinces: Vitebsk and the Shtetls, 1917–41] . . . 194

STEPHEN LOVELL
Evgenii Dobrenko, Politekonomiia sotsrealizma, trans. as Evgeny Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism by Jesse M. Savage; Katharina Kucher, Der Gorki-Park: Freizeitkultur im Stalinismus 1928–1941 [Gor´kii Park: Leisure Culture under Stalinism, 1928-41]; Svetlana Iur´evna Malysheva, Sovetskaia prazdnichnaia kul´tura v provintsii: Prostranstvo, simvoly, istoricheskie mify (1917–1927) [Soviet Festival Culture in the Provinces: Space, Symbols, Historical Myths, 1917-27] . . . 205

In Memoriam

ELISE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER
Marc Raeff (1923–2008): “A Pebble in the Water” . . . 216

Letters

ORLANDO FIGES
To the Editors . . . 221

ANTONY BEEVOR
To the Editors . . . 223

Contributors to This Issue . . . 225

From the Editors

Passing through the Iron Curtain . . . 703

Articles

CATRIONA KELLY
Defending Children’s Rights, “In Defense of Peace”: Children and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy . . . 711

GREG CASTILLO
East as True West: Redeeming Bourgeois Culture, from Socialist Realism to Ostalgie . . . 747

DAVID CROWLEY
Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s . . . 769

ELAINE KELLY
Imagining Richard Wagner: The Janus Head of a Divided Nation . . . 799

PAULINA BREN
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall … Is the West the Fairest of Them All? Czechoslovak Normalization and Its (Dis)contents . . . 831

SUSAN E. REID
Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 . . . 855

BARBARA WALKER
Moscow Human Rights Defenders Look West: Attitudes toward U.S. Journalists in the 1960s and 1970s . . . 905

Reaction

GYORGY PETERI
The Occident Within—or the Drive for Exceptionalism and Modernity . . . 929

Reviews

DONALD OSTROWSKI
Sergei Alekseevich Bugoslavskii, Tekstologiia drevnei Rusi (The Textology of Old Rus´). 2 vols., ed. Iurii A. Artamonov; Andrei Leonidovich Nikitin, Tekstologiia russkikh letopisei XI–nachala XIV vv. (A Textology of Rus´ Chronicles from the 11th to the Early 14th Centuries), 1; M. F. Kotliar, V. Iu. Franchuk, and A. G. Plakhonin, eds., Galitsko-Volynskaia letopis´: Tekst. Kommentarii. Issledovanie (The Galician–Volynian Chronicle: Text, Commentary, Research) . . . 939

VERA DUBINA
N. E. Koposov, N. D. Potapova, and M. M. Krom, eds., Istoricheskie poniatiia i politicheskie idei v Rossii XVI–XX veka: Sbornik nauchnykh rabot (Historical Concepts and Political Ideas in Russia in the 16th–20th Centuries: A Collection of Scholarly Works); Peter Тhiergen, ed., Russische Begriffsgeschichte der Neuzeit: Beiträge zu einem Forschungsdesiderat (Russian Conceptual History of the Modern Period: Contributions to a Research Desideratum) . . . 949

BRADLEY D. WOODWORTH
Max Engman, Pietarinsuomalaiset (Petersburg Finns); Raimo Pullat, Lootuste linn: Peterburi ja eesti haritlaskonna kujunemine kuni 1917 (City of Hopes: Petersburg and the Formation of the Estonian Intelligentsia to 1917); Izabella Shangina, Natal´ia Revunenkova, and Natal´ia Iukhneva, eds., Mnogonatsional´nyi Peterburg: Istoriia, religii, narody (Multinational Petersburg: History, Religions, Peoples) . . . 963

JOHANNES REMY
Ricarda Vulpius, Nationalisierung der Religion: Russifizierungspolitik und ukrainische Nationsbuildung, 1860–1920 (The Nationalization of Religion: Russification Policy and Ukrainian Nation-Building, 1860–1920) . . . 977

MARC ELIE
Rudol´f Germanovich Pikhoia, Moskva, Kreml´, vlast´ (Moscow, the Kremlin, Power), 2 vols. . . . 988

Letters

MICHAEL MELANCON
Reply to Lars Lih . . . 997

Contributors to This Issue . . . 999