Current Issue
Volume 73
Number 4, Winter
2014
PLATONOV’S TURKMENIA
Nariman Skakov, Special Section Guest Editor
Introduction: Andrei Platonov, an Engineer of the Human Soul
Nariman Skakov 719
Mieka Erley 727
“The Mountain of the Mind”: The Politics of the Gaze in Andrei Platonov’s Dzhan
Philip Ross Bullock 751
Nariman Skakov 772
Afterword
Eric Naiman 801
ARTICLES
The Diaristic Form and Subjectivity under Khrushchev
Anatoly Pinsky 805
Images of the Nation Foreseen: Ivan Me¹troviæ’s Vidovdan Temple and Primordial Yugoslavism
Aleksandar Ignjatoviæ 828
Stalin’s Answer to the National Question: A Case Study on the Editing of the 1938 Short Course
David Brandenberger and Mikhail V. Zelenov 859
The Witches of Wilno: Constant Litigation and Conflict Resolution
David Frick 881
FEATURED REVIEW
David Moon, The Plough That Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914 (Willard Sunderland) 903
FILM REVIEW
Gustavo Pérez, dir., They Would All Be Queens (Anne E. Gorsuch) 906
BOOK REVIEWS
Christian Noack, Lindsay Janssen, and Vincent Comerford, eds., Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland (Serhy Yekelchyk) 908
John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 (Doris L. Bergen) 909
Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, eds., Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 (Matthew Stibbe) 910
Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva, Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Post-Communist Countries (Daina S. Eglitis) 912
Lawrence P. Markowitz, State Erosion: Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia (Roger D. Kangas) 914
Per Högselius, Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen) 915
Isa Blumi, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State (Adeeb Khalid) 916
Frederick F. Anscombe, State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands (Isa Blumi) 918
Holm Sundhaussen, Sarajevo: Die Geschichte einer Stadt (Peter Mentzel) 919
Jana Vobecká, Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah (Alena Heitlinger) 920
Thomas Frühmesser, Hans Otto Roth: Biographie eines rumänischendeutschen Politikers (1890-1953) (Gábor Egry) 922
Björn M. Felder and Paul J. Weindling, eds., Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 1918-1940 (Andrejs Plakans) 923
Kenneth Morrison and Elizabeth Roberts, The Sand¾ak: A History (Marko Attila Hoare) 925
Ioannis Stefanidis, Substitute for Power: Wartime British Propaganda to the Balkans, 1939-44 (Heather Williams) 926
James Krapfl, Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992 (David Doellinger) 927
David Doellinger, Turning Prayers into Protest: Religious-Based Activism and Its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany (Barbara Thériault) 929
Miko³aj Stanis³aw Kunicki, Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland-The Politics of Boles³aw Piasecki (Konrad Sadkowski) 930
Brian Porter-Szûcs, Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom (Theodore R. Weeks) 932
Robert G. Rawson, Bohemian Baroque: Czech Musical Culture and Style, 1600-1750 (Alfred Thomas) 933
Jim Samson, Music in the Balkans (Ljerka V. Rasmussen) 934
Magdalena Waligorska, Klezmer’s Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany (James Loeffler) 936
Jennifer A. Yoder, Crafting Democracy: Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe (Carol Leff) 937
Faith Hillis, Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation (Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak) 939
Mariya Lesiv, The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation (Catherine Wanner) 940
Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine (Gennady Estraikh) 941
Hugo Service, Germans to Poles: Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War (William W. Hagen) 943
Walter K. Hanak, The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054: A Study of Sources (Simon Franklin) 945
Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (David Frick) 946
Heather D. DeHaan, Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, and Power (Paul Stronski) 947
John Strickland, The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism before the Revolution (Paul W. Werth) 949
Stephen K. Batalden, Russian Bible Wars: Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural Authority (Robert H. Greene) 950
Steven Grant, The Russian Nanny, Real and Imagined: History, Culture, Mythology (Marina Balina) 951
Wolf-Dietrich Gutjahr, “Revolution muss sein”: Karl Radek-Die Biographie (Jean-Francois Fayet) 953
M. V. Kovalev, Russkie istoriki-emigranty v Prage (1920-1940 gg.) (Kare Johan Mjor) 954
Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd, eds., The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s (Mark B. Smith) 955
Alfred A. Reisch, Hot Books in the Cold War: The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program behind the Iron Curtain (Barbara Walker) 957
Susan Grant, Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s (Molly Wilkinson Johnson) 958
Anna Schur, Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (James P. Scanlan) 960
Elizabeth Kendall, Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer (Marian Smith) 961
Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori, and Maria Mileeva, eds., Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond (Kristin Romberg) 962
J. A. E. Curtis, The Englishman from Lebedian’: The Life of Evgeny Zamiatin (1884-1937) (Zinaida Gimpelevich) 964
Angela Brintlinger, Chapaev and His Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero across the Twentieth Century (Keith Livers) 965
Olga Gershenson, The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (Alexander Etkind) 967
Octavian Eºanu, Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group before and after 1989 (Amy Bryzgel) 968