Current Issue
Volume 68
Number 2, Summer 2009
EMOTIONAL TURN? FEELINGS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Jan Plamper, Special Section Guest Editor
Introduction
Jan Plamper 229
The Perception of Emotional Coldness in Andrei Turgenev’s Diaries
Andrei Zorin 238
Fear: Soldiers and Emotion in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Military Psychology
Jan Plamper 259
Poetics of Disgust: To Eat and Die in Andrei Belyi’s Petersburg
Olga Matich 284
“With a Shade of Disgust”: Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag
Adi Kuntsman 308
Comment
William M. Reddy 329
ARTICLES
Between Ideology and Desire: Rhetoric of the Self in the Works of Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Nikolai Dobroliubov
Konstantine Klioutchkine 335
The Covert Design of The Brothers Karamazov: Alesha’s Pathology and Dialectic
James L. Rice 355
Pollution and Purification in the Moscow Human Rights Networks of the 1960s and 1970s
Barbara Walker 376
FEATURED REVIEWS
Paula M. Pickering, Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor (Sari Wastell) 396
Richard Taruskin, On Russian Music (Simon Morrison) 398
BOOK REVIEWS
Manfred Hildermeier, ed. Historical Concepts between Eastern and Western Europe (Pavel Koláø) 402
Michal Kopeèek, ed., Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989 (Péter Apor) 403
Oksana Sarkisova and Péter Apor, eds., Past for the Eyes: East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989 (Stefan Troebst) 405
Desanka Schwara, Unterwegs: Reiseerfahrung zwischen Heimat und Fremde in der Neuzeit (Larry Wolff) 406
Howard N. Lupovitch, Jews at the Crossroads: Tradition and Accommodation during the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility, 1729-1878 (Tim Cole) 407
Robin Okey, Taming Balkan Nationalism: The Habsburg “Civilizing Mission” in Bosnia, 1878-1918 (Robert J. Donia) 408
Stefano Bottoni, Transilvania rossa: Il Communismo romeno e la questione nazionale (1944-1965); Alberto Basciani, La difficile unione: La Bessarabia e la Grande Romania, 1918-1940 (Florin Anghel) 410
Armin Heinen, Rumänien, der Holocaust und die Logik der Gewalt (Keith Hitchins) 411
Phillip T. Rutherford, Prelude to the Final Solution: The Nazi Program for Deporting Ethnic Poles, 1939-1941 (Jonathan Huener) 412
Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, and Kai Struve, eds., Shared History-Divided Memory: Jews and Others in Soviet-Occupied Poland, 1939-1941 (Phillip T. Rutherford) 413
Philipp Ther, In der Mitte der Gesellschaft: Operntheater in Zentraleuropa 1815-1914 (Nancy M. Wingfield) 415
John Tyrrell, Janáèek: Years of a Life. Vol. 2, (1914-1928): Tsar of the Forests (Brian Locke) 416
Donna A. Buchanan, ed., Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse (Timothy Rice) 417
Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane L. Curry, eds., Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy (Andrew C. Janos) 419
Joan DeBardeleben, ed., The Boundaries of EU Enlargement: Finding a Place for Neighbours (Oliver Schmidtke) 420
Katrina Z. S. Schwartz, Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape (Joan DeBardeleben) 421
Grigory Ioffe, Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark (Elena Gapova) 422
Vadim Kukushkin, From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada (Lubomyr Luciuk) 423
Bruce Grant and Lale Yalçin-Heckmann, eds., Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories, and the Making of a World Area (Russell Zanca) 424
Robert Romanchuk, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397-1501 (Donald Ostrowski) 426
John Charmley, The Princess and the Politicians: Sex, Intrigue and Diplomacy, 1812-40; Judith Lissauer Cromwell, Dorothea Lieven: A Russian Princess in London and Paris, 1785-1857; Rados³aw Pawel ¯urawski vel Grajewski, Ksiê¿na Dorothea Lieven wobec Polski i Polaków (J. M. P. McErlean) 427
Alison K. Smith, Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars (Louise McReynolds) 429
Andreas Schönle, The Ruler in the Garden: Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia (Mary W. Cavender) 430
Stella Rock, Popular Religion in Russia: “Double Belief” and the Making of an Academic Myth (Chris J. Chulos) 431
Wendy Rosslyn, Deeds Not Words: The Origins of Women’s Philanthropy in the Russian Empire (Joseph Bradley) 433
Annegret Bautz, Sozialpolitik statt Wohltätigkeit? Der Konzeptionswandel städtischer Fürsorge in Sankt Petersburg von 1892 bis 1914 (Julia Obertreis) 434
Felix Patrikeeff and Harold Shukman, Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War (Matthew J. Payne) 435
Sarah Badcock, Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (Michael Melancon) 436
Hiroaki Kuromiya, The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s (Wendy Goldman) 437
G. A. Iankovskaia, Iskusstvo, den’gi i politika: Khudozhnik v gody pozdnego stalinizma (Stuart Finkel) 438
A. M. Dubrovskii, Istorik i vlast’: Istoricheskaia nauka v SSSR i kontseptsiia istorii feodal’noi Rossii v kontekste politiki i ideologii (1930-1950-e gg.) (George Enteen) 440
David S. Foglesong, The American Mission and the “Evil Empire”: The Crusade for a “Free Russia” since 1881 (Daniela Spenser) 441
Jan C. Behrends, Die erfundene Freundschaft: Propaganda für die Sowjetunion in Polen und der DDR 1944-1957 (Patrick Hyder Patterson) 442
Lorenz M. Lüthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Shu Guang Zhang) 443
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Lina Bernstein) 444
Lyudmila Parts, The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (Donald Rayfield) 445
Gertraud Marinelli-König, Russische Kinderliteratur in der Sowjetunion der Jahre 1920-1930 (Larissa Rudova) 446
Marcus C. Levitt and Tatyana Novikov, eds., Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture (Dan Healey) 447
Rosalind Marsh, Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006 (Margaret Ziolkowski) 448
Marina Frolova-Walker, Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin (Mark Carroll) 449
A. A. Kurbanovskii, Nezapnii mrak: Ocherki po arkheologii vizual’nosti (Alison Hilton) 451
Ada Raev and Isabel Wünsche, eds., Kursschwankungen: Russische Kunst im Wertesystem der europäischen Moderne (John Milner and Eva-Viktoria Kwapil) 452
William C. Brumfield, Velikii ustiug (Ann Kleimola) 453
Axel Kaehne, Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia (Kathleen E. Smith) 454
Uriel Procaccia, Russian Culture, Property Rights, and the Market Economy (Kathryn Hendley) 455
Marlen Lariuel’ [Marlene Laruelle], ed., Sovremennye interpretatsii russkogo natsionalizma (Vera Tolz) 456
Douglas W. Blum, National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State, and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia (Luke March) 458
Linda J. Cook, Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe (Stephen Crowley) 459
Gwendolyn Sasse, The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Brian Glyn Williams) 460
Natasha Kuhrt, Russian Policy towards China and Japan: The El’tsin and Putin Periods (Nobuo Shimotomai) 462