Current Issue
Volume 72
Number 4, Winter
2013
SLAVOJ ®I®EK
Du¹an Bjeliæ, Special Section Guest Editor
An Introduction
Du¹an Bjeliæ 701
To Begin at the Beginning Again: ®i¾ek in Yugoslavia
Sean Homer 708
The Rhetorics of Interpretation and ®i¾ek’s Approach to Film
Mario Slugan 728
Gautam Basu Thakur 750
Reply
Slavoj ®i¾ek 771
ARTICLES
Law and Empire in Late Tsarist Russia: Muslim Tatars Go to Court
Stefan B. Kirmse 778
Too Much of a Good Thing? Assessing Access to Civil Justice in Russia
Kathryn Hendley 802
Adapting the Therapeutic Discourse to Post-Soviet Media Culture: The Case of Modnyi Prigovor
Julia Lerner and Claudia Zbenovich 828
FEATURED REVIEWS
Jane T. Costlow, Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest (Adele Barker) 850
Anindita Banerjee, We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity (Yvonne Howell) 853
Thane Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune: The Battle of Oil and Power in Russia (Anders Aslund) 856
FILM REVIEW
Eline Flipse, dir., Our Newspaper (Thomas C. Wolfe) 860
BOOK REVIEWS
Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova, eds., Embracing Arms: Cultural Representations of Slavic and Balkan Women in War (Laurie Stoff) 862
Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger, eds., Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Luminiþa Gatejel) 863
Gerald M. Easter, Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States (Kathryn Hendley) 865
Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja, eds., Post-Cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence (Sonia Hirt) 866
Eduard Mühle, ed., Studien zum Adel im mittelalterlichen Polen (Paul W. Knoll) 868
Longina Jakubowska, Patrons of History: Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland (Brian Porter-Szûcs) 869
Kristin Kopp, Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space (Todd Kontje) 871
Christopher Görlich, Urlaub vom Staat: Tourismus in der DDR (Scott Moranda) 872
Thomas Sakmyster, A Communist Odyssey: The Life of József Pogány / John Pepper (Peter Kenez) 873
Mark Pittaway, The Workers’ State: Industrial Labor and the Making of Socialist Hungary, 1944-1958 (Alexander Vári) 874
Susan Zimmermann, Divide, Provide and Rule: An Integrative History of Poverty Policy, Social Policy, and Social Reform in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy, trans. from Hungarian, John Harbord (Árpád von Klimó) 875
Michael Weber, Der geistig-geistliche Mensch im Konzept der Gnade bei Dumitru Stãniloae: Eine theologische Untersuchung unter der Berücksichtigung des soziokulturellen Hintergrundes (Keith Hitchins) 876
Robert C. Austin, Founding a Balkan State: Albania’s Experiment with Democracy, 1920-1925 (Isa Blumi) 878
Holm Sundhaussen, Jugoslawien und seine Nachfolgestaaten, 1943-2011: Eine ungewöhnliche Geschichte des Gewöhnlichen (Sabrina P. Ramet) 879
Sarah Houtermans, Mediale Zwischenwelten: Audiovisuelle Kunst in der Tschechoslowakei (1919?1939) (Petr Szczepanik) 880
Gordana P. Crnkoviæ, Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes (Tatjana Aleksiæ) 882
Peter Oliver Loew and Christian Prunitsch, eds., Polen. Jubiläen und Debatten: Beiträge zur Erinnerungskultur (Winson Chu) 883
Karolina S. Follis, Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier (Deema Kaneff) 885
Anna Fournier, Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students between Freedom and Justice (Julie Hemment) 887
Umut Korkut, Liberalization Challenges in Hungary: Elitism, Progressivism, and Populism (Patrick H. O’Neil) 888
Vasiliki P. Neofotistos, The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia (Anastasia Karakasidou) 889
Isaiah Gruber, Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles (Georg Michels) 890
E. Iu. Sergeev, Bol’shaia igra, 1856-1907: Mify i realii rossiisko-britanskikh otnoshenii v Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Azii (Alexander Morrison) 892
Anastasiia Iu. Dunaeva, Reformy politsii v Rossii nachala XX veka i Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovskii (Mary Schaeffer Conroy) 894
Konstantin I. Shneider, Mezhdu svobodoi i samoderzhaviem: Istoriia rannego russkogo liberalizma (Anton Fedyashin) 895
George M. Young, The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers (Julia Mannherz) 897
Eric Lohr, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union (Joshua Sanborn) 898
James Ryan, Lenin’s Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (Claudia Verhoeven) 899
Nanci Adler, Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag (Steven A. Barnes) 900
Larry E. Holmes, War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power: The Center, Periphery, and Kirov’s Pedagogical Institute, 1941-1952 (E. Thomas Ewing) 902
Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Stalins Soldaten in Österreich: Die Innensicht der sowjetischen Besatzung, 1945-1955 (Mark Edele) 903
Andrew L. Jenks, The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin (Asif Siddiqi) 904
Ali Igmen, Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan (Jeff Sahadeo) 906
Philipp Herzog, Sozialistische Völkerfreundschaft, nationaler Widerstand oder harmloser Zeitvertreib? Zur politischen Funktion der Volkskunst im sowjetischen Estland, introduction, Andreas Kappeler (Olaf Mertelsmann) 907
Yaacov Ro’i, ed., The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, epilogue, George P. Shultz (Zvi Gitelmann) 908
Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin, eds., Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace” (Kathleen Parthé) 910
Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Poetika realizma: Dostojevski, Flober, Tolstoj (Tatiana Kuzmic) 911
Jarrod Tanny, City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa (Anna Shternshis) 913
Nina Gurianova, The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde (Sven Spieker) 914
Jeremy Hicks, First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-1946 (Denise J. Youngblood) 915
Nariman Skakov, The Cinema of Tarkovsky: Labyrinths of Space and Time (Alexander Prokhorov) 917
Rachel S. Platonov, Singing the Self: Guitar Poetry, Community, and Identity in the Post-Stalin Period (Polly Jones) 918
Yuri Leving, ed., Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols” (Stanislav Shvabrin) 919
Jacob Edmond, A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Andrew Kahn) 921
Sonja Luehrmann, Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic (Mathijs Pelkmans) 922
Vera Zvereva, Setevye razgovory: Kul’turnye kommunikatsii v Runete (Michael Gorham) 924
Jane R. Zavisca, Housing in the New Russia (Cynthia Buckley) 925
Suvi Salmenniemi, ed., Rethinking Class in Russia (Jeffrey K. Hass) 926
Alexander Cooley, Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (David Lewis) 928 DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 2012 930
COLLECTED ESSAYS 950
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 953
IN MEMORIAM 956
INDEX 959