Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

Volume 9, Number 3 (Summer 2008)

From the Editors

Marketing Russian History . . . 497

Forum: Tolstoi, Orthodoxy, and Terrorism

INESSA MEDZHIBOVSKAYA
Tolstoi’s Response to Terror and Revolutionary Violence . . . 505

PÅL KOLSTØ
The Elder at Iasnaia Poliana: Lev Tolstoi and the Orthodox Starets Tradition . . . 533

Reaction

WILLIAM NICKELL
New Directions in Tolstoi Scholarship . . . 555

Article

STEPHEN LOVELL
From Genealogy to Generation: The Birth of Cohort Thinking in Russia . . . 567

Review Essays

WILLARD SUNDERLAND
The Last of the White Moustaches: Recent Books on the
Anti-Bolshevik Commanders of the East . . . 595

MALTE GRIESSE
Soviet Subjectivities: Discourse, Self-Criticism, Imposture . . . 609

MICHAEL D. GORDIN
Was There Ever a “Stalinist Science”? . . . 625

Reviews

NADIESZDA KIZENKO
John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk, eds., Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine; M. V. Korogodina, Ispoved´ v Rossii v XIV–XIX vekakh: Issledovanie i teksty (Confession in 14th- to 19th-Century Russia: A Study and Primary Texts) . . . 641

MARTINA WINKLER
Mary W. Cavender, Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local
Loyalties in Provincial Russia; John Randolph, The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism; Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power . . . 655

GREGORY VITARBO
Stephen M. Norris, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812–1945; Pavel Petrovich Shcherbinin, Voennyi faktor v povsednevnoi zhizni russkoi zhenshchiny v XVIII–nachale XX vekov (The War Factor in the Everyday Life of Russian Women from the 18th to the Beginning of the 20th Centuries); David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and Bruce W. Menning, eds., Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution . . . 668

ALEXEI MILLER
Theodore R. Weeks, From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The “Jewish Question” in Poland, 1850–1914 . . . 679

SARAH BADCOCK
Peter Gatrell, Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History; Ol´ga Sergeevna Porshneva, Krest´iane, rabochie i soldaty Rossii nakanune i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (Peasants, Workers, and Soldiers of Russia before and during World War I) . . . 685

MAIKE LEHMANN
El´dar Rafik ogly Ismailov, Azerbaidzhan: 1953–1956 gg. Pervye gody “ottepeli” (Azerbaijan, 1953–56: The First Years of the “Thaw”) . . . 694

Contributors to This Issue . . . 701

From the Editors

An Interview with Michael Confino . . . 279

Articles

ILYA VINITSKY
Amor Hereos, or How One Brother Was Visited by an Invisible Being: Lived Spirituality among Russian Freemasons in the 1810s . . . 291

JOSHUA FIRST
From Spectator to “Differentiated” Consumer: Film Audience Research in the Era of Developed Socialism (1965–80) . . . 317

History and Historians

ROBERT E. JOHNSON
“The Greatest Russian Tragedy of the 20th Century”: An Interview with Viktor Danilov (1925–2004) . . . 345

Review Essays

STEPHEN LOVELL
Power, Personalism, and Provisioning in Russian History . . . 373

DANIEL L. SCHLAFLY, JR.
The Great White Bear and the Cradle of Culture: Italian Images of Russia and Russian Images of Italy . . . 389

G. M. HAMBURG
Imperial Entanglements: Two New Histories of Russia’s Western and Southern Borderlands . . . 407

NICK BARON
New Spatial Histories of 20th-Century Russia and the Soviet Union: Exploring the Terrain . . . 433

Reviews

PAUL BUSHKOVITCH
I. A. Lobakova, Zhitie mitropolita Filippa: Issledovanie i teksty (The Life of Metropolitan Filipp: A Study and Texts); Arkhimandrit Makarii (Veretennikov), Sviataia Rus´: Agiografiia, istoriia, ierarkhiia (Holy Russia: Hagiography, History, Hierarchy) , , , 449

MARC RAEFF
Elena Veniaminovna Alekseeva, Diffuziia evropeiskikh innovatsii v Rossii (XVIII–nachalo XX v.) (The Diffusion of European Innovations in Russia [from the 18th to the Early 20th Century]) . . . 457

ILYA VINKOVETSKY
Aleksandr Iur´evich Petrov, Rossiisko-amerikanskaia kompaniia: Deiatel´nost´ na otechestvennom i zarubezhnom rynkakh, 1799–1867 (The Russian-American Company: Activity in the Home and Foreign Markets, 1799–1867); Anatolii Viktorovich Remnev, Rossiia Dal´nego Vostoka: Imperskaia geografiia vlasti XIX–nachala XX vekov (Russia of the Far East: An Imperial Geography of Power from the 19th to the Early 20th Century) . . . 463

BALÁZS APOR
Jan C. Behrends, Die erfundene Freundschaft: Propaganda für die Sowjetunion in Polen und in der DDR (The Invented Friendship: Propaganda for the Soviet Union in Poland and the GDR); Malte Rolf, Das sowjetische Massenfest (The Soviet Mass Festival) . . . 472

IRINA PAPKOVA
Wallace L. Daniel, The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia; Zoe Knox, Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia after Communism; Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mitrokhin, Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov´: Sovremennoe sostoianie i aktual´nye problemy (The Russian Orthodox Church: Contemporary Condition and Current Problems) . . . 481

Letters

NORMAN W. INGHAM
To the Editors . . . 493

Contributors to This Issue . . . 495

rom the Editors

Journées d'études internationales . . . 1

Introduction

SUSAN GROSS SOLOMON
Circulation of Knowledge and the Russian Locale . . . 9

Articles

ALESSANDRO STANZIANI
Free Labor—Forced Labor: An Uncertain Boundary? The Circulation of Economic Ideas between Russia and Europe from the 18th to the Mid-19th Century . . . 27

VERA TOLZ
European, National, and (Anti-)Imperial: The Formation of Academic Oriental Studies in Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Russia . . . 53

NATHANIEL KNIGHT
Nikolai Kharuzin and the Quest for a Universal Human Science: Anthropological Evolutionism and the Russian Ethnographic Tradition, 1885–1900 . . . 83

WLADIMIR BERELOWITCH
History in Russia Comes of Age: Institution-Building, Cosmopolitanism, and Theoretical Debates among Historians in Late Imperial Russia . . . 113

JULIETTE CADIOT
Russia Learns to Write: Slavistics, Politics, and the Struggle to Redefine Empire in the Early 20th Century . . . 135

MARLENE LARUELLE
The Concept of Ethnogenesis in Central Asia: Political Context and Institutional Mediators (1940–50) . . . 169

NATALIA AVTONOMOVA
The Use of Western Concepts in Post-Soviet Philosophy: Translation and Reception . . . 189

Reaction

ALAIN BLUM
Circulation, Transfers, Isolation . . . 231

Reviews

RUSSELL E. MARTIN
Chester S. L. Dunning, A Short History of Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty; Liudmila Evgen´evna Morozova, Rossiia na puti iz Smuty: Izbranie na tsarstvo Mikhaila Fedorovicha (Russia on Its Way Out of the Time of Troubles: Mikhail Fedorovich’s Election as Tsar) . . . 243

JOHN RANDOLPH
Dmitrii Alekseevich Miliutin, Vospominaniia general-fel´dmarshala grafa Dmitriia Alekseevicha Miliutina (The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Count Dmitrii Alekseevich Miliutin), ed. Larisa Georgievna Zakharova, 6 vols. . . . 252

BRIAN HOROWITZ
Oleg Vital´evich Budnitskii et al., eds., Mirovoi krizis 1914–1920 godov i sud´ba vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva (The World Crisis of 1914–20 and the Fate of East European Jewry) . . . 258

VLADIMIR SOLONARI
Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing; Jörg Baberowski, ed., Moderne Zeiten? Krieg, Revolution und Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert (Modern Times? War, Revolution, and Violence in the 20th Century) . . . 263

MICHAEL S. GORHAM
David Markovich Fel´dman, Terminologiia vlasti: Sovetskie politicheskie terminy v istoriko-kul´turnom kontekste (The Terminology of Power: Soviet Political Terms in Historical-Cultural Context) . . . 270

Letters

EDWARD L. KEENAN
To the Editors . . . 275

Contributors to This Issue . . . 277

From the Editors

Premodern Lessons for Modern Historians . . . 711

Articles

LAURIE MANCHESTER
Commonalities of Modern Political Discourse: Three Paths of Modern Activism in Late Imperial Russia’s Alternative Intelligentsia . . . 715

VLADIMIR SOLONARI
Patterns of Violence: The Local Population and the Mass Murder of Jews in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, July–August 1941 . . . 749

JAMES HEINZEN
Informers and the State under Late Stalinism: Informant Networks and Crimes against “Socialist Property,” 1940–53 . . . 789

Review Forum: Aleksandr Zimin and the Igor´ Tale

EDWARD L. KEENAN
The Long-Awaited Book and the Bykovskii Hypothesis . . . 817

NORMAN W. INGHAM
Historians and Textology . . . 831

Review Article

DANIEL R. BROWER
Peopling the Empires: Practices, Perceptions, Policies . . . 841

Review Essay

LARS T. LIH
1905 and All That: The Revolution and Its Aftermath . . . 861

Reviews

GREGORY L. FREEZE
Carsten Goehrke, Russischer Alltag: Eine Geschichte in neun Zeitbildern vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Gegewart (Russian Everyday Life: A History in Nine Time-Pictures from the Early Middle Ages to the Present), 3 vols. . . . 877

CHARLES J. HALPERIN
Valerie Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia; Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Soboleva, Ocherki istorii rossiiskoi simvoliki: Ot tamgi do simvolov gosudarstvennogo suvereniteta [Essays on the History of Russian Symbolics: From Clan Symbol to Symbols of State Sovereignty] . . . 887

PHILIP BOOBBYER
Lesley Chamberlain, The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia; S. L. Frank, Saratovskii tekst [Saratov Text]; Paul Gundersen, Paul Nicolay of Monrepos: A European with a Difference . . . 897

GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS
Sofiia Chuikina, Dvorianskaia pamiat´: “Byvshie” v sovetskom gorode. Leningrad, 1920e–1930e gody (Noble Memory: “Former People” in the Soviet City. Leningrad, 1920s–30s) . . . 904

SERGEY RADCHENKO
Sergo Mikoian, Anatomiia Karibskogo krizisa (The Anatomy of
the Caribbean [Cuban Missile] Crisis) . . . 910

In Memoriam

RONALD GRIGOR SUNY
Daniel Brower (1936–2007) . . . 915

Contributors to This Issue . . . 919

From the Editors

An Interview with Sheila Fitzpatrick . . . 479

Articles

STEPHEN KOTKIN
Mongol Commonwealth? Exchange and Governance across the Post-Mongol Space . . . 487

JAMES FRANK GOODWIN
Russian Anarchism and the Bolshevization of Bakunin in the Early Soviet Period . . . 533

MAXIM WALDSTEIN
Russifying Estonia? Iurii Lotman and the Politics of Language and Culture in Soviet Estonia . . . 561

Review Article

YVES COHEN
The Cult of Number One in an Age of Leaders . . . 597

Review Essay

ANDY BRUNO
Russian Environmental History: Directions and Potentials . . . 635

Reviews

ISABEL DE MADARIAGA
Aleksandr Il´ich Filiushkin, Tituly russkikh gosudarei (The Titles of Russian Rulers) . . . 651

VIKTOR ZHIVOV
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Aleksandr Nevskij: Heiliger—Fürst Nationalheld. Ein Erinnerungsfigur im russischen kulturellen Gedächtnis (1263–2000) (Aleksandr Nevskii: Saint—Prince—National Hero. A Figure of Commemoration in Russian Cultural Memory [1263–2000]) . . . 661

DAVID KIRBY
Frank Nesemann, Ein Staat, kein Gouvernement: Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Autonomie Finnlands im russischen Zarenreich, 1808 bis 1826 (A State but not a Province: The Origin and Evolution of Finland’s Autonomy in the Russian Empire, 1808–26) . . . 672

PETER WALDRON
Ekaterina Anatol´evna Pravilova, Finansy imperii: Den´gi i vlast´ v politike Rossii na natsional´nykh okrainakh, 1801–1917 (The Empire’s Finances: Money and Power in Russian Policy in the National Borderlands, 1801–1917) . . . 676

JOHN-PAUL HIMKA
Johan Dietsch, Making Sense of Suffering: Holocaust and Holodomor in Ukrainian Historical Culture; Stanyslav Vladyslavovych Kul´chyts´kyi, Holod 1932–1933 rr. v Ukraini iak henotsyd/Golod 1932–1933 gg. v Ukraine kak genotsid (The 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine as a Genocide) . . . 683

POLLY JONES
Iurii Aksiutin, Khrushchevskaia ottepel´ i obshchestvennye nastroeniia v SSSR v 1953–1964 gg. (The Khrushchev Thaw and Popular Opinion in the USSR, 1953–64); Arlen Blium, Kak eto delalos´ v Leningrade: Tsenzura v gody ottepeli, zastoia i perestroika, 1953–1991 (How It Was Done in Leningrad: Censorship in the Years of the Thaw, Stagnation, and Perestroika, 1953–91) . . . 695

In Memoriam

JANET HARTLEY
Lindsey Hughes (1949–2007) . . . 705

Contributors to This Issue . . . 709