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Volume 72

Number 2, Summer 2013

READING THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: EARLY SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION

Sibelan Forrester and Yvonne Howell, Special Section Guest Editors

Introduction: From Nauchnaia Fantastika to Post-Soviet Dystopia
Sibelan Forrester and Yvonne Howell  219

How Nauchnaia Fantastika Was Made: The Debates about the Genre of Science Fiction from NEP to High Stalinism
Matthias Schwartz  224

Aleksei N. Tolstoi and the Enigmatic Engineer: A Case of Vicarious Revisionism
Muireann Maguire  247

One Billion Years after the End of the World: Historical Deadlock, Contemporary Dystopia, and the Continuing Legacy of the Strugatskii Brothers
Sofya Khagi  267

ARTICLES

Dancing the Nation in the North Caucasus
Sufian Zhemukhov and Charles King  287

Stories States Tell: Identity, Narrative, and Human Rights in the Balkans
Jelena Subotiæ   306

Socialist Popular Literature and the Czech-German Split in Austrian Social Democracy, 1890-1914
Jakub Bene¹š  327

FEATURED REVIEWS

Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen, eds., Comparing Empires: Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Mark von Hagen)  352

Mark Cornwall, The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (Chad Bryant)  357

Ante Lešaja, Knjigocid: Uništavanje knjige u Hrvatskoj 1990-ih (Robert M. Hayden)  361

Katerina Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941 (Anne Nesbet)  364

FILM REVIEW

Maple Razsa and Pancho Velez, dirs., Bastards of Utopia (Dušan I. Bjeliæ)  368

BOOK REVIEWS

Brian L. Davies, ed., Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500–1800 (Lawrence Sondhaus)  370

Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller, eds., Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines (Stephen M. Norris)  371

Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe (Karl Qualls)  373

Stefan Troebst and Johanna Wolf, eds., Erinnern an den Zweiten Weltkrieg: Mahnmale und Museen in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Christina Morina)  374

Jacques Semelin, Claire Andrieu, and Sarah Gensburger, eds., Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue, trans. Emma Bentley and Cynthia Schoch (Joanna B. Michlic)  376

Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas Lindenberger, eds., Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies (Anthony Kemp-Welch)  378

Tomislav Z. Longinoviæ, Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary (Vedrana Velièkoviæ)  379

Hilde Katrine Haug, Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question (John V. A. Fine)  381

Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten, Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory (Lidia Santarelli)  382

Andrzej Nowak, Imperiological Studies: A Polish Perspective (Alexey Miller)  383

Jochen Böhler and Stephan Lehnstaedt, eds., Gewalt und Alltag im besetzten Polen 1939–1945 (Catherine Epstein)  384

Iris Engemann, Die Slowakisierung Bratislavas: Universität, Theater und Kultusgemeinden, 1918–1948 (Peter Bugge)  386

Jean Ancel, The History of the Holocaust in Romania, trans. Yaffah Murciano, ed. Leon Volovici, with the assistance of Miriam Caloianu (Vladimir Solonari)  387

Olga Borovaya, Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire (K. E. Fleming)  389

Marek Haltof, Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory (Annette Insdorf)  390

Aurelia Vasile, Le cinéma roumain dans la période communiste: Représentations de l’histoire nationale (Marcel Cornis-Pope)  391

Anne Quinney, ed., Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris: Francophone Writers from Romania (Keith Hitchins)  393

Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, ed., Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism: Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period (Diana Spokiene)  394

Charles S. Kraszewski, Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czes³aw Mi³osz (Tadeusz Slawek)  396

Mark Andryczyk, The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction (Myroslav Shkandrij)  397

Martina Baleva, Bulgarien im Bild: Die Erfindung von Nationen auf dem Balkan in der Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts (Matthew Rampley)  398

Matthew Rampley, ed., Heritage, Ideology, and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe: Contested Pasts, Contested Presents (Jim Aulich)  400

Huub van Baar and Ingrid Commandeur, eds., Museutopia: A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich (Jennifer Cash)  401

John Downey and Sabina Mihelj, eds., Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture (Peter Gross)  402

Tassilo Herrschel, Borders in Post-Socialist Europe: Territory, Scale, Society (Joni Virkkunen)  404

Armina Galijaš, Eine bosnische Stadt im Zeichen des Krieges: Ethnopolitik und Alltag in Banja Luka (1990–1995) (Ivo Banac)  405

Ohannes Geukjian, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy (Brian Glyn Williams)  407

Robert Collis, The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689–1725 (James Cracraft)  408

Kati Parppei, “The Oldest One in Russia”: The Formation of the Historiographical Image of Valaam Monastery (Scott Kenworthy)  409

I. A. Khristoforov, Sud<’>ba reformy: Russkoe krest<’>ianstvo v pravitel<’>stvennoi politike do i posle otmeny krepostnogo prava (1830–1890-e gg.) (Tracy Dennison)  410

S. Iu. Malysheva, Prazdnyi den<’>, dosuzhii vecher: Kul<’>tura dosuga rossiiskogo provintsial<’>nogo goroda vtoroi poloviny XIX–nachala XX veka (Susan Smith-Peter)  412

Walter Sperling, Der Aufbruch der Provinz: Die Eisenbahnen und die Neuordnung der Räume im Zarenreich (Reinhard Nachtigal)  413

Uyama Tomohiko, ed., Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts (Steven Sabol)  414

Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Robert D. Crews)  416

David Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939 (Matthew E. Lenoe)  417

Robert Service, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution (Rex A. Wade)  418

David Stahel, Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East (Kenneth Slepyan)  420

Karel C. Berkhoff, Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II (Denise J. Youngblood)  421

Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov (Alexander Hill)  422

Geoffrey Roberts, Molotov: Stalin’s Cold Warrior (Eric Duskin)  423

Elena Agarossi and Victor Zaslavsky, Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins of the Cold War (Spencer M. Di Scala)  425

Hiroaki Kuromiya, Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953 (Robert H. Greene)  426

Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell, eds., Victory over the Sun: The World’s First Futurist Opera (Charlotte Douglas)  427

Susanne Marten-Finnis, Der Feuervogel als Kunstzeitschrift: Žar ptica. Russische Bildwelten in Berlin 1921–26 (John E. Bowlt)  429

Jean-Paul Bronckart and Cristian Bota, Bakhtine démasqué: Histoire d’un menteur, d’une escroquerie et d’un délire collectif (Karine Zbinden)  430

M. [Maksim] P. Marusenkov, Absurdopediia russkoi zhizni Vladimira Sorokina: Zaum<’>, grotesk i absurd (Ulrich Schmid)  431

David-Emil Wickström, “Okna otkroi!”—“Open the Windows!” Transcultural Flows and Identity Politics in the St. Petersburg Popular Music Scene, foreword, Yngvar B. Steinholt (Sergei I. Zhuk)  433

Jarrett Zigon, ed., Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia (Milena Benovska-Sabkova)  434

Alicja Curanoviæ, The Religious Factor in Russia’s Foreign Policy (Anastasia Mitrofanova)  436

Helene Carlba¨ck, Yulia Gradskova, and Zhanna Kravchenko, eds., And They Lived Happily Ever After: Norms and Everyday Practices of Family and Parenthood in Russia and Eastern Europe (Deborah A. Field)  437

Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova, eds., Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine; Marian J. Rubchak, ed., Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine (Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak)  439

Otto Luchterhandt, ed., Rechtskultur in Russland: Tradition und Wandel (Peter B. Maggs)  441

Genri Khail [Henry E. Hale] and Ivan Kurilla, eds., Rossiia “dvukhtysiachnykh”: Stereoskopicheskii vzgliad (Stephen White)  442

Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (Lucan Way)  444

COLLECTED ESSAYS 446
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 449
IN MEMORIAM 451