Region Volume 3 No.2

Russia and Asia
Chinyun Lee
From Kiachta to Vladivostok: Russian Merchants and the Tea Trade     195

Tatiana Filimonova
Chinese Russia: Imperial Consciousness in Vladimir Sorokin’s Work     219

Damian Rosset and David Svarin
The Constraints of the Past and the Failure of Central Asian Regionalism, 1991–2004     245

Articles
Sergey Lyubichankovskiy
The Financial Position of Officials in the Provincial Ural Administrations at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries     267

Mark Edele
The New Soviet Man as a “Gypsy”: Nomadism, War, and Marginality in Stalin’s Time     285

Simeon Mitropolitski
EU Integration: An Enforcement of or an Impediment to National Identity in Bulgaria and Macedonia     309

Call for Papers
Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives     327

Book Reviews
David L. Ransel
Robert E. Jones. Bread of the Water: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811.     329

Stanley G. Payne
Rory Yeomans. Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism 1941–1945.     333

Ararat Osipian
Evgeny Vinokurov and Alexander Libman. Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism.     337

Notes on the Contributors     341

Style Sheet and Submissions Guidelines     345