Current Issue

Volume 72

Number 1, Spring 2013

DISCUSSION

The Question of the Perpetrator in Soviet History
Lynne Viola 1

Comment: Twin Pyramids-Perpetrators and Victims
Wendy Z. Goldman 24

Comment: Making Perpetrators
Peter Fritzsche 28

ARTICLES

Anti-Westernism on the European Periphery: The Meaning of Soviet-Turkish Convergence in the 1930s
Samuel J. Hirst 32

Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology
Aleksandar Bo¹koviæ 54

Amnesia and the Externalized Personality in Early Dostoevskii
Yuri Corrigan 79

One Day-Fifty Years Later
Andrew Wachtel 102

 

FEATURED REVIEWS

Christian Raffensperger, Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World (Simon Franklin)  118

Michael David-Fox, Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 (Stuart Finkel)  121

Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudziñska Gross, Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust (David Engel)  124

Jonathan Bolton, Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (John Connelly)  127

BOOK REVIEWS

Glenn Dynner, ed., Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe, foreword, Moshe Rosman (Judith Kalik)  131

Anna Kaminsky, Dietmar Müller, and Stefan Troebst, eds., assisted by Ines Keske, Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen der Europäer (Gerhard L. Weinberg)  133

Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark, eds., A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Jay Winter)   134

Greg Castillo, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (Katherine Pence) 135

Maria Cizmic, Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe (Larry Sitsky)  137

Sarah B. Snyder, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Jeffrey Kahn)  138

Jan Kláp¹tì, The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation, trans. Sean Mark Miller and Kateøina Millerová, ed. Philadelphia Ricketts (Paul W. Knoll)  139

Michael Laurence Miller, Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (Hillel J. Kieval)  141

Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (Valerie A. Kivelson)  142

Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century (Karl K. Barbir)  144

Dominique Kirchner Reill, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice (Robin Okey)  145

Glenn E. Torrey, The Romanian Battlefront in World War I (Richard C. Hall)  146

Erica L. Tucker, Remembering Occupied Warsaw: Polish Narratives of World War II (Piotr Wróbel)  148

Sabrina P. Ramet and Ola Listhaug, eds., Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two (Emily Greble)  149

Heike Amos, Vertriebenenverbände im Fadenkreuz: Aktivitäten der DDR-Staatssicherheit 1949 bis 1989 (Pertti Ahonen)  150

Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte, State Minorities in Communist East Germany (Jennifer A. Yoder)  152

Beata A. Bieniek, Bruno Schulz’ Mythopoesie der Geschlechteridentitäten: Der Götzenblick im Gender-Spiegel (Micha³ Pawe³ Markowski)  153

Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (Irena Grudziñska Gross)  154

Evgenija Garbolevsky, The Conformists: Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema, 1945-89 (Mary Neuburger)  155

Philip V. Bohlman and Nada Petkoviæ, eds., Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (Catherine Baker)  156

Ana Hofman, Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in Serbia (Carol Silverman)  158

Bogusia Puchalska, Limits to Democratic Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe (Roman David)  159

Matthew P. Romaniello, The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (Charles J. Halperin)  160

Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (John T. Alexander)  162

Michael Khodarkovsky, Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus (Willard Sunderland)  163

Karl Schlögel, ed., with the assistance of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, Mastering Russian Spaces: Raum und Raumbewältigung als Problem der russischen Geschichte (Walter Sperling)  165

Nathaniel Deutsch, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Jeffrey Veidlinger)  166

Marjorie L. Hilton, Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930 (James L. West)  167

Carter Elwood, The Non-Geometric Lenin: Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party, 1910-14 (Christopher Read)  169

Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War (John W. Steinberg)  170

Rainkhard Nakhtigal’ [Reinhard Nachtigal], Murmanskaia zheleznaia doroga, 1915-1919 gody: Voennaia neobkhodimost’ i ekonomicheskie soobrazheniia (Henry Reichman)  171

Ol’ga Mikhailovna Morozova, Dva akta dramy: Boevoe proshloe i poslevoennaia povsednevnost’ veteranov grazhdanskoi voiny (Aaron B. Retish)  172

Nikolaus Katzer, Sandra Budy, Alexandra K?hring, and Manfred Zeller, eds., Euphoria and Exhaustion: Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society (Jeffrey W. Jones)  174

Matthias Neumann, The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1931 (William B. Husband)  175

Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Die “inhaftierte” Presse: Das Pressewesen sowjetischer Zwangsarbeitslager, 1923-1937 (Simon Ertz)   177

David Brandenberger, Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927-1941 (E. A. Rees)  178

Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (David Brandenberger)  180

Kare Johan Mjor, Reformulating Russia: The Cultural and Intellectual Historiography of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers (Paul Valliere)  181

Birgit Menzel, Michael Hagemeister, and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, eds., The New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions (George M. Young)  182

Gary Saul Morson, The Long and the Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel (Hugh McLean)  184

N. P. Generalova and V. A. Lukina, eds., I. S. Turgenev: Novye issledovaniia i materialy, 2 vols. (Jane Costlow)  185

Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature: A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of Modernity (Ronald D. LeBlanc)  187

Cristina Beretta, Das erotische Unbehagen in der russischen Literatur um 1900: Subversive Entsagung von Arthur Schopenhauer über Lev Tolstoj und Vladimir Solov’ev zu Fedor Sologub (Otto Boele)  188

Lada Panova, ed., with Sarah Pratt, The Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin: A Miscellany (Judith E. Kalb)  189

Siggy Frank, Nabokov’s Theatrical Imagination (Galya Diment)  191 

Charles M. Joseph, Stravinsky’s Ballets (Simon Morrison)  192

Jiøí Smr¾, Symphonic Stalinism: Claiming Russian Musical Classics for the New Soviet Listener, 1932-1953, foreword, Thomas Lahusen and Peter H. Solomon Jr. (Mark Carroll)  193

Natalia Jörg, Schreiben im Exil-Exil im Schreiben: Zur narrative Vermittlung von Exilerfahrungen bei Vladimir Nabokov and Iosif Brodskij (Adrian Wanner)  195

Evgeny Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov, eds., A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond (Yana Hashamova)  196

Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri, Manana Topadze, and Anna Lukianowicz, eds., with the collaboration of Oleg Rumjancev, Languages and Cultures in the Caucasus (Rebecca Gould)  197

Suha Bolukbasi, Azerbaijan: A Political History (Audrey L. Altstadt)  199

Vladimir Gel’man and Cameron Ross, eds., The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia (Elise Giuliano)  200

Eric McGlinchey, Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (Michele E. Commercio)  202

J. Paul Goode, The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues (Gulnaz Sharafutdinova)  203

Olena Nikolayenko, Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States (Valerie Sperling)  205

Maya Eichler, Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War and Post-Soviet Russia (Adi Kuntsman)  206


COLLECTED ESSAYS 209
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 211
LETTERS 213