Current Issue
Volume 71
Number 1, Spring 2012
ARTICLES
Empire by Consent: Strakhov,
Dostoevskii, and the Polish Uprising of 1863
Edyta M. Bojanowska 1
Holidays in Kazan: The Public Sphere and
the Politics of Religious Authority among Tatars in 1914
Norihiro
Naganawa 25
Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the
Terrible and the Renaissance: An Example of Stalinist
Cosmopolitanism?
Katerina Clark 49
Samizdat and Soviet Dissident
Publics
Ann Komaromi 70
The Russian-Speaking Jewish
Diaspora in Translation: Liudmila Ulitskaia's Daniel Stein,
Translator
Margarita Levantovskaya 91
Black Work, Green Money: Remittances,
Ritual, and Domestic Economies in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Madeleine Reeves
108
FEATURED REVIEWS
Gerald W. Creed, Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (Katherine Verdery and Jane Sugarman) 135
Bo¿ena Shallcross, The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Rachel Feldhay Brenner) 137
Barbara Alpern Engel. Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia (David L. Ransel) 140
Michael A. Reynolds, Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918 (Mark L. von Hagen) 143FILM REVIEWS
Sergei Loznitsa, dir., Revue (Polly Jones) 147
Joanna Grudziñska, dir., K.O.R. (Shana Penn) 148
BOOK REVIEWS
Jörn Happel and Christophe von Werdt, eds., with assistance from Mira Jovanoviæ, Osteuropa kartiert-Mapping Eastern Europe (Steven Seegel) 150
David L. Cooper, Creating the Nation: Identity and Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia and Bohemia (Andrei Zorin) 151
Jane Costlow and Amy Nelson, eds., Other Animals: Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History (Douglas Weiner) 152
Karoly Attila Soos, Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition: Primary and Secondary Privatisation in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Demetrius S. Iatridis) 153
Bruce R. Berglund and Brian Porter-Szûcs, eds., Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe (Konrad Sadkowski) 154
Felix Ackermann, Palimpsest Grodno: Nationalisierung, Nivellierung und Sowjetisierung einer mitteleuropäischen Stadt 1919-1991 (Christoph Mick) 156
Jacek Andrzej M³ynarczyk and Jochen Böhler, eds. Der Judenmord in den eingegliederten polnischen Gebieten 1939-1945 (Catherine Epstein) 157
Svetla Baloutzova, Demography and Nation: Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria, 1918-1944 (Mary Neuburger) 159
Mark Biondich, The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878 (Richard C. Hall) 160
Andrea Despot, Amerikas Weg auf den Balkan: Zur Genese der Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Südosteuropa, 1820-1920 (John K. Cox) 161
Ulf Brunnbauer, ed., Transnational Societies, Transterritorial Politics: Migrations in the (Post-) Yugoslav Region 19th-21st Century (Nick Miller) 162
Klaus Buchenau, Auf russischen Spuren: Orthodoxe Antiwestler in Serbien, 1850-1945 (Radmila Radiæ) 163
Hannes Grandits and Karin Taylor, eds., Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s-1980s) (Paulina Bren) 165
Liubka Lipcheva-Prandzheva, Bitie v prevoda: Bãlgarska literatura na nemski ezik (XIX-XX v.). (Rumjana Ivanova-Kiefer) 166
Peter Hames, Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition (David Sorfa) 167
Maria Golubeva and Robert Gould, eds. Shrinking Citizenship: Discursive Practices That Limit Democratic Participation in Latvian Politics (Daina S. Eglitis) 168
Kateryna Pishchikova, Promoting Democracy in Postcommunist Ukraine: The Contradictory Outcomes of US Aid to Women’s NGOs (Sarah D. Phillips) 169
Volodymyr Kulyk, Dyskurs ukraiins’kykh medii: Identychnosti, ideolohii, vladni stosunky (Marta Dyczok) 170
András Kovács, The Stranger at Hand: Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary (Gábor T. Rittersporn) 171
Christopher Cviiæ and Peter Sanfey, In Search of the Balkan Recovery: The Political and Economic Reemergence of South-Eastern Europe (John Marangos) 173
Vassilis Nitsiakos, On the Border: Transborder Mobility, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries on the Albanian-Greek Frontier (Anastasia Karakasidou) 174
Paul Dukes, Graeme P. Herd, and Jarmo Kotilaine, Stuarts and Romanovs: The Rise and Fall of a Special Relationship (Brian Davies) 175
Iu. P. Anshakov, A. E. Zagrebin, S. V. Liubichankovskii, eds., Mestnoe upravlenie v poreformennoi Rossii: Mekhanizmy vlasti i ikh effektivnost’: Svodnye materialy zaochnoi diskussii (Peter Weisensel) 176
Francis W. Wcislo, Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 (Cynthia Hyla Whittaker) 177
Jörn Happel, Nomadische Lebenswelten und zarische Politik: Der Aufstand in Zentralasien 1916 (Shoshana Keller) 178
Gudrun Persson, Learning from Foreign Wars: Russian Military Thinking, 1859-73 (Jamie Cockfield) 179
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity (Daniel Orlovsky) 180
Scott M. Kenworthy, The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society after 1825 (Robert H. Greene) 182
Irina Paert, Spiritual Elders: Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy (Heather J. Coleman) 183
Dany Savelli, ed., La Religion de l’Autre: Réactions et interactions entre religions dans le monde russe (Agnes Kefeli) 184
Anna Lisa Crone, Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal: The Philosophers and the Freudians (Frances Nethercott) 186
Asif A. Siddiqi, The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 (Amy Nelson) 187
Paul R. Josephson, Lenin’s Laureate: Zhores Alferov’s Life in Communist Science (Harley Balzer) 188
John A. Martens, Secret Patenting in the USSR and Russia (Malcolm R. Hill) 190
Igal Halfin, Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self (Thomas Seifrid) 191
Eva Maurer, Wege zum Pik Stalin: Sowjetische Alpinisten, 1928-1953 (Manfred Zeller) 192
Donald Filtzer, The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953 (Kenneth M. Pinnow) 193
Alexandre Sumpf, Bolcheviks en campagne: Paysans et éducation politique dans la Russie des années 1920 (James D. White) 194
E. Thomas Ewing, Separate Schools: Gender, Policy, and Practice in Postwar Soviet Education (Karen Petrone) 195
Jeremy Smith and Melanie Ilic, eds., Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953-1964 (Martin McCauley) 197
A. Ross Johnson, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond (Sheldon Anderson) 198
Blaine R. Chiasson, Administering the Colonizer: Manchuria’s Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29 (David Wolff) 199
Predrag Cicovacki and Maria Granik, eds., Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: Art, Creativity, and Spirituality (Nina Perlina) 201
Musya Glants, Where Is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolsky, 1843-1902 (Mirjam Rajner) 202
Gabriella Safran, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky (Barry Trachtenberg) 203
Mikhail Krutikov, From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener (Anna Shternshis) 205
D. I. Chizhevskii, Izbrannoe v trekh tomakh. Vol. 1, Materialy k biografii (1894-1977), ed. V. Iantsen (Judith Deutsch Kornblatt) 206
Catherine Depretto, Le Formalisme en Russie, foreword, Michel Aucouturier (Laura Beraha) 207
Pauline Fairclough, ed., Shostakovich Studies 2 (Neil Minturn) 209
Irina Papkova, The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics (John Garrard) 210
Jarrett Zigon, “HIV Is God’s Blessing”: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia (Erin Koch) 211
Lilia Shevtsova, Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West Is Weary of Russia, trans. Antonina W. Bouis (Kathryn Stoner-Weiss) 212