Current Issue
Volume 76
Number 2, Summer 2017
CRITICAL FORUM: THE EAST EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO
THE 2015 MIGRATION CRISIS
Introduction: From Comparison to Relationality
Zsuzsa Gille
The Refugee Crisis and the Return of the East-West Divide in Europe
Ivan Krastev
Coherent Selves, Viable States: Eastern Europe and the “Migration/Refugee Crisis
Dace Dzenovska
The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around “Race”
József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar
Beyond East and West: Solidarity Politics and the Absent/Present State in the Balkans
Jessica Greenberg and Ivana Spasiæ
ARTICLES
Honored Citizens and the Creation of a Middle Class in Imperial Russia
Alison K. Smith
“Vladimir Lenin in Smolnyi” by Isaak I. Brodskii: The History of a Twin
Andrei Keller
The Oil Deal: Nariman Narimanov and the Sovietization of Azerbaijan
Sara Brinegar
Revolution, Production, Representation: Iurii Rozhkov’s Photomontages to Maiakovskii’s Poem
Aleksandar Bo¹koviæ
High Modernism in Theory and Practice: Karel Teige and Tomá¹ Ba»a
Jessica Merrill
Wedded to Welfare? Working Mothers and the Welfare State in Communist Poland
Piotr Perkowski
CRITICAL REVIEW
Maple Razsa, Bastards of Utopia. Living Radical Politics after Socialism; Maple Rasza and Pacho
Velez, dir. Bastards of Utopia (film); Maple Razsa’s Videos (Slobodan Naumoviæ)
FEATURED REVIEWS
Mark Bassin, The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism and the Construction of Community in
Modern Russia (Sergei Prozorov)
Jeremy Friedman, Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
(Jonathan Haslam)
Maria Todorova, Augusta Dimou, and Stefan Troebst, eds., Remembering Communism, Private and
Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe (Olga Manojloviæ Pintar)
Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR
(Stephan Conermann)
BOOK REVIEWS
Kate Brown, Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of the Places Not Yet Forgotten
(Serguei Oushakine)
Tam T. T. Ngo and Justine B. Quijada, eds., Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents: A Comparative
Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia (Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal)
Gleb Tsipursky, Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, & State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet
Union, 1945-1970 (Miriam Neirick)
John M. Efron, German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (Shulamit S. Magnus)
Ulf Brunnbauer, Globalizing Southeastern Europe: Emigrants, America and the State since the Late
Nineteenth Century (Riki Van Boeschoten)
Nada Bo¹kovska, Angelika Strobel, and Daniel Ursprung, eds., “Entwickelter Sozialismus” in
Osteuropa. Arbeit, Konsum und Öffentlichkeit (Luminita Gatejel)
Peter Hallama and Stephan Stach, Gegengeschichte: Zweiter Weltkrieg und Holocaust im
ostmitteleuropäischen Dissens (Tom Junes)
Márkus Keller, Experten und Beamte: Die Professionalisierung der Lehrer höherer Schulen in
der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (Károly Halmos)
Robert Nemes, Another Hungary: The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives (Peter Thaler)
Theodore R. Weeks, Vilnius Between Nations 1795-2000; Dangiras Maèiulis and Darius
Staliunas, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883-1940 (Tomas Venclova)
Dariusz Adamczyk and Norbert Kersken, eds., Fernhändler, Dynasten, Kleriker. Die piastische
Herrschaft in kontinentalen Beziehungsgeflechten vom 10. bis zum frühen 13. Jahrhundert
(Paul W. Knoll)
Miko³aj Szo³tysek, Rethinking East-Central Europe: Family Systems and Co-residence in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Robert Frost)
Lea Prais, Displaced Persons at Home: Refugees in the Fabric of Jewish Life in Warsaw September
1939-July 1942, trans. Naftali Greenwood (Gustavo Corni)
Paul A. Shapiro, The Kishinev Ghetto 1941-1942. A Documentary History of the Holocaust in
Romania’s Contested Borderlands (Michael Shafir)
Stefan Dorondel, Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in
Postsocialist Romania (David A. Kideckel)
Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (George O. Liber)
Mark R. Baker, Peasants, Power, and Place: Revolution in the Village of Kharkiv Province, 1914-1921
(Hugh D. Hudson, Jr.)
Victoria Khiterer, Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before
February 1917 (Michael F. Hamm)
George O. Liber, Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 (Kai Struve)
Michael T. Westrate, Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan: Under the Falling Red Star in
Kharkiv (Paul Hollander)
Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Militant around the Clock? Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in
Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 (Friederike Kind-Kovács)
Gertrud Pickhan and Rüdiger Ritter, eds., Meanings of Jazz in State Socialism (Venelin I. Ganev)
Miranda Jaki¹a and Nikica Giliæ, eds., Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film and Visual
Culture (Gordana P. Crnkoviæ)
Agnieszka Halemba, Negotiating Marian Apparitions. The Politics of Religion in
Transcarpathian Ukraine (Chris Hann)
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen and Gelinada Grinchenko, eds., Reclaiming the Personal: Oral
History in Post-Socialist Europe (Marysia H. Galbraith)
Matej Blazek, Rematerializing Children’s Agency: Everyday Practices in a Post-Socialist Estate
(Clementine Fujimura)
Matthias Schwartz and Heike Winkel, eds. Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context
(Fran Markowitz)
Timothy K. Blauvelt and Jeremy Smith, eds. Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power
(Stephen Jones)
Peter Krasztev and Jon Van Til, eds., The Hungarian Patient: Social Opposition to an Illiberal
Democracy (Jason Wittenberg)
Erika Monahan, The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Brian Davies)
Daria Sambuk, Wächter der Gesundheit: Staat und lokale Gesellschaften beim Aufbau des
Medizinalwesens im Russischen Reich, 1762-1831 (Charlotte Henze)
Aileen M. Kelly, The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen (Derek Offord)
James E. Casteel, Russia in the German Global Imagination: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires,
1905-1941 (Stefan Troebst)
Ivan Sablin, Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911-1924: Buddhism, Socialism, and
Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building (Melissa Chakars)
Erik R. Scott, Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire
(Bruce Grant)
Loren Graham, Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia (Julie V. Brown)
Andy Bruno, The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History (Stephen Brain)
Rosalind P. Blakesley, The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881 (Janet E. Kennedy)
Andrei Shabanov, Peredvizhniki: Mezhdu kommercheskim tovarishchestvom i khudozhestvennym
dvizheniem (Rosamund Bartlett)
Martha M. F. Kelly, Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic
(Per-Arne Bodin)
Lonny Harrison, Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self (Steven Cassedy)
Aleksandr Vasil<’>evich Lavrov, Simvolisty i drugie: Stat<’>i, Razyskaniia. Publikatsii
(Avril Pyman-Sokolov)
Michael Kunichika, “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian
Modernism (Julia Bekman Chadaga)
Isabel Wünsche, The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nature’s Creative Principles
(John Milner)
Pauline Fairclough, Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin
(Kevin M. Bartig)
Thomas Grob and Sabina Horber, eds. Moskau: Metropole zwischen Kultur und Macht (Stephen Lovell)
Mikahil B. Iampol<’>skii, Prigov: Ocherki khudozhestvennogo nominalizma (Alexei Kurbanovsky)
Jardar Ostbo, The New Third Rome: Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth (Richard Sakwa)
Roger E. Kanet and Matthew Sussex, eds., Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia: Foreign
Policy in a Contested Region; and Matthew Sussex and Roger E. Kanet, eds., Russia, Eurasia and the New Geopolitics of Energy: Confrontation and Consolidation (Carol Weaver)
Marcin Kaczmarski, Russia-China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order (Charles Ziegler)
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