Current Issue
Volume 73
Number 1, Spring
2014
ARTICLES
Through the Lens of Loss: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Elegiac Photo-Poetics
Molly Thomasy Blasing 1
Fiction as Mapmaking: Moscow as Ivan Bunin’s Russian Memory Palace
Angela Brintlinger 36
Transnational Identities in Diaspora Writing: The Narratives of Vasily Yanovsky
Maria Rubins 62
Politics, Law, and Justice in People's Poland: The Fieldorf File
Agata Fijalkowski 85
Selling Market Socialism: Hungary in the 1960s
Beth Greene 108
Alena Alamgir 133
FEATURED REVIEWS
Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Michael D. Gordin) 156
Carol Silverman, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Margaret H. Beissinger) 158
BOOK REVIEWS
Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan Iacob, eds., The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History (James Mark) 162
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas (Alexander Prusin) 163
Ines Koeltzsch, Geteilte Kulturen. Eine Geschichte der tschechisch-jüdisch-deutschen Beziehungen in Prag (1918-1938) (Gary B. Cohen) 165
Winson Chu, The German Minority in Interwar Poland (Eva Plach) 166
Alexander Etkind et al., Remembering Katyn (Kevin M. F. Platt) 167
Sean Brennan, The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 (Matthew Hockenos) 169
Mateusz J. Hartwich, Das schlesische Riesengebirge: Die Polonisierung einer Landschaft nach 1945 (Richard Blanke) 170
Katalin Fenyves, Képzelt Asszimiláció? Négy zsidó értelmiségi nemzedék önképe (Alice Freifeld) 172
Attila Seres, Hungarian-Soviet Economic Relations, 1920-1941, trans. Thomas J. and Helen D. DeKornfeld (Helga Schultz) 173
Mary C. Neuburger, Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Cristofer Scarboro) 174
Rory Yeomans, Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941-1945 (John R. Lampe) 176
Alfred Gall, Schreiben und Extremerfahrung - die polnische Gulag-Literatur in komparatistischer Perspektive (Kris van Heuckelom) 177
Catharina Raudvere, Krzysztof Stala, and Trine Stauning Willert, eds., Rethinking the Space for Religion: New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe on Religion, Authenticity and Belonging (Robert F. Goeckel) 179
Lajos Bokros, Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area (Alan Mayhew) 180
Richard Filčák, Living beyond the Pale: Environmental Justice and the Roma Minority (Michelle Kelso) 182
Gábor Attila Tóth, ed., Constitution for a Disunited Nation: On Hungary’s 2011 Fundamental Law (Bogusia Puchalska) 183
Ina Merdjanova, Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism (Kemal H. Karpat) 185
Hariz Halilovich, Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities (Judith Pintar) 186
Dušan I. Bjelić, Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry (Gretchen Bakke) 188
Marcy Brink-Danan, Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance (Ruth Mandel) 189
Virgil Ciocîltan, The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, trans. Samuel Willcocks (David Ostrowski) 191
Serhii Plokhy, ed., Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth (Carol B. Stevens) 192
Robert E. Jones, Bread upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703-1811 (Matthew P. Romaniello) 194
Victoria Frede, Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia (Robert Geraci) 195
Louise McReynolds, Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia (Sharon A. Kowalsky) 196
Svetlana Gorshenina, Asie centrale: L’invention des frontieres et l’héritage russo-soviétique (David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye) 198
Allen J. Frank, Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige (Stéphane A. Dudoignon) 199
Hugh G. Hudson, Jr., Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State: Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy (James Heinzen) 200
Roger D. Markwick and Euridice Charon Cardona, Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Reina Pennington) 202
Brian LaPierre, Hooligans in Khrushchev’s Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw (James T. Andrews) 204
Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn, The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History (David R. Stone) 205
Andrei P. Tsygankov, Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin: Honor in International Relations (Alexander Cooley) 206
Ingrid Kleespies, A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature (Jane Costlow) 208
Ilya Kliger, The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature (Ilya Vinitsky) 209
Valentin Belentschikow, Bertha von Suttner und Russland (Kees Boterbloem) 211
Mykola Soroka, Faces of Displacement: The Writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko (Vitaly Chernetsky) 212
Tomáš Lipták and Jurij Murašov, eds., Schrift und Macht: Zur sowjetischen Literatur der 1920er und 30er Jahre (Hans J. Rindisbacher) 213
Efraim Sicher, Babel’ in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity; Rebecca Jane Stanton, Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism (Amelia Glaser) 215
Muireann Maguire, Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature (Thomas Seifrid) 217
Alexander Etkind, Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (Harriet Murav) 219
Mark Gamsa, The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice (Carol Ueland) 220
Wolfgang Stephan Kissel, Čechovs Kosmos: Theater, Raum und Zeit (Regine Nohejl) 221
Christina Ezrahi, Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia (Daria Khitrova) 223
Aleksandra Shatskikh, Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism, trans. Marian Schwartz (John Milner) 225
Ginés Garrido, Mélnikov en París, 1925 (Jordana Mendelson) 226
Sarah Oates, Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere (Ellen Mickiewicz) 227
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva, The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (David L. Ransel) 229
Erin Koch, Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia (Kate Thomson) 230
Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen, eds., Institutional Reform in Central Asia: Politico-Economic Challenges (Roger D. Kangas) 231
COLLECTED ESSAYS 233
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 237