Current Issue
Volume 72
Number 2, Summer
2013
READING THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: EARLY SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION
Sibelan Forrester and Yvonne Howell, Special Section Guest Editors
Introduction: From Nauchnaia Fantastika to Post-Soviet
Dystopia
Sibelan Forrester and Yvonne Howell 219
How Nauchnaia Fantastika Was
Made: The Debates about the Genre of Science Fiction from NEP to High
Stalinism
Matthias Schwartz 224
Aleksei N. Tolstoi and the Enigmatic
Engineer: A Case of Vicarious Revisionism
Muireann Maguire 247
One Billion Years after the End of the
World: Historical Deadlock, Contemporary Dystopia, and the Continuing Legacy of
the Strugatskii Brothers
Sofya Khagi 267
ARTICLES
Dancing the Nation in the North
Caucasus
Sufian Zhemukhov and Charles King 287
Stories States Tell: Identity, Narrative,
and Human Rights in the Balkans
Jelena Subotiæ 306
Jakub
Bene¹š 327
FEATURED REVIEWS
Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen, eds., Comparing Empires: Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Mark von Hagen) 352
Mark Cornwall, The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (Chad Bryant) 357
Ante Lešaja, Knjigocid: Uništavanje knjige u Hrvatskoj 1990-ih (Robert M. Hayden) 361
Katerina Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941 (Anne Nesbet) 364
FILM REVIEW
Maple Razsa and Pancho Velez, dirs., Bastards of Utopia (Dušan I. Bjeliæ) 368
BOOK REVIEWS
Brian L. Davies, ed., Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500–1800 (Lawrence Sondhaus) 370
Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller, eds., Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines (Stephen M. Norris) 371
Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe (Karl Qualls) 373
Stefan Troebst and Johanna Wolf, eds., Erinnern an den Zweiten Weltkrieg: Mahnmale und Museen in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Christina Morina) 374
Jacques Semelin, Claire Andrieu, and Sarah Gensburger, eds., Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue, trans. Emma Bentley and Cynthia Schoch (Joanna B. Michlic) 376
Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas Lindenberger, eds., Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies (Anthony Kemp-Welch) 378
Tomislav Z. Longinoviæ, Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary (Vedrana Velièkoviæ) 379
Hilde Katrine Haug, Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question (John V. A. Fine) 381
Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten, Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory (Lidia Santarelli) 382
Andrzej Nowak, Imperiological Studies: A Polish Perspective (Alexey Miller) 383
Jochen Böhler and Stephan Lehnstaedt, eds., Gewalt und Alltag im besetzten Polen 1939–1945 (Catherine Epstein) 384
Iris Engemann, Die Slowakisierung Bratislavas: Universität, Theater und Kultusgemeinden, 1918–1948 (Peter Bugge) 386
Jean Ancel, The History of the Holocaust in Romania, trans. Yaffah Murciano, ed. Leon Volovici, with the assistance of Miriam Caloianu (Vladimir Solonari) 387
Olga Borovaya, Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire (K. E. Fleming) 389
Marek Haltof, Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory (Annette Insdorf) 390
Aurelia Vasile, Le cinéma roumain dans la période communiste: Représentations de l’histoire nationale (Marcel Cornis-Pope) 391
Anne Quinney, ed., Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris: Francophone Writers from Romania (Keith Hitchins) 393
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, ed., Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism: Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period (Diana Spokiene) 394
Charles S. Kraszewski, Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czes³aw Mi³osz (Tadeusz Slawek) 396
Mark Andryczyk, The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction (Myroslav Shkandrij) 397
Martina Baleva, Bulgarien im Bild: Die Erfindung von Nationen auf dem Balkan in der Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts (Matthew Rampley) 398
Matthew Rampley, ed., Heritage, Ideology, and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe: Contested Pasts, Contested Presents (Jim Aulich) 400
Huub van Baar and Ingrid Commandeur, eds., Museutopia: A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich (Jennifer Cash) 401
John Downey and Sabina Mihelj, eds., Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture (Peter Gross) 402
Tassilo Herrschel, Borders in Post-Socialist Europe: Territory, Scale, Society (Joni Virkkunen) 404
Armina Galijaš, Eine bosnische Stadt im Zeichen des Krieges: Ethnopolitik und Alltag in Banja Luka (1990–1995) (Ivo Banac) 405
Ohannes Geukjian, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy (Brian Glyn Williams) 407
Robert Collis, The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689–1725 (James Cracraft) 408
Kati Parppei, “The Oldest One in Russia”: The Formation of the Historiographical Image of Valaam Monastery (Scott Kenworthy) 409
I. A. Khristoforov, Sud<’>ba reformy: Russkoe krest<’>ianstvo v pravitel<’>stvennoi politike do i posle otmeny krepostnogo prava (1830–1890-e gg.) (Tracy Dennison) 410
S. Iu. Malysheva, Prazdnyi den<’>, dosuzhii vecher: Kul<’>tura dosuga rossiiskogo provintsial<’>nogo goroda vtoroi poloviny XIX–nachala XX veka (Susan Smith-Peter) 412
Walter Sperling, Der Aufbruch der Provinz: Die Eisenbahnen und die Neuordnung der Räume im Zarenreich (Reinhard Nachtigal) 413
Uyama Tomohiko, ed., Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts (Steven Sabol) 414
Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Robert D. Crews) 416
David Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939 (Matthew E. Lenoe) 417
Robert Service, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution (Rex A. Wade) 418
David Stahel, Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East (Kenneth Slepyan) 420
Karel C. Berkhoff, Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II (Denise J. Youngblood) 421
Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov (Alexander Hill) 422
Geoffrey Roberts, Molotov: Stalin’s Cold Warrior (Eric Duskin) 423
Elena Agarossi and Victor Zaslavsky, Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins of the Cold War (Spencer M. Di Scala) 425
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953 (Robert H. Greene) 426
Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell, eds., Victory over the Sun: The World’s First Futurist Opera (Charlotte Douglas) 427
Susanne Marten-Finnis, Der Feuervogel als Kunstzeitschrift: Žar ptica. Russische Bildwelten in Berlin 1921–26 (John E. Bowlt) 429
Jean-Paul Bronckart and Cristian Bota, Bakhtine démasqué: Histoire d’un menteur, d’une escroquerie et d’un délire collectif (Karine Zbinden) 430
M. [Maksim] P. Marusenkov, Absurdopediia russkoi zhizni Vladimira Sorokina: Zaum<’>, grotesk i absurd (Ulrich Schmid) 431
David-Emil Wickström, “Okna otkroi!”—“Open the Windows!” Transcultural Flows and Identity Politics in the St. Petersburg Popular Music Scene, foreword, Yngvar B. Steinholt (Sergei I. Zhuk) 433
Jarrett Zigon, ed., Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia (Milena Benovska-Sabkova) 434
Alicja Curanoviæ, The Religious Factor in Russia’s Foreign Policy (Anastasia Mitrofanova) 436
Helene Carlba¨ck, Yulia Gradskova, and Zhanna Kravchenko, eds., And They Lived Happily Ever After: Norms and Everyday Practices of Family and Parenthood in Russia and Eastern Europe (Deborah A. Field) 437
Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova, eds., Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine; Marian J. Rubchak, ed., Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine (Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak) 439
Otto Luchterhandt, ed., Rechtskultur in Russland: Tradition und Wandel (Peter B. Maggs) 441
Genri Khail [Henry E. Hale] and Ivan Kurilla, eds., Rossiia “dvukhtysiachnykh”: Stereoskopicheskii vzgliad (Stephen White) 442
Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (Lucan Way) 444