Current Issue
Volume 72
Number 1, Spring 2013
DISCUSSION
The Question of the Perpetrator in Soviet
History
Lynne Viola 1
Comment: Twin Pyramids-Perpetrators and Victims
Wendy Z. Goldman 24
Comment: Making Perpetrators
Peter Fritzsche 28
ARTICLES
Anti-Westernism on the European Periphery: The
Meaning of Soviet-Turkish Convergence in the 1930s
Samuel J. Hirst
32
Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology
Aleksandar Bo¹koviæ 54
Amnesia and the Externalized Personality in Early
Dostoevskii
Yuri Corrigan 79
One Day-Fifty Years Later
Andrew Wachtel 102
FEATURED REVIEWS
Christian Raffensperger, Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World (Simon Franklin) 118
Michael David-Fox, Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 (Stuart Finkel) 121
Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudziñska Gross, Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust (David Engel) 124
Jonathan Bolton, Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (John Connelly) 127
BOOK REVIEWS
Glenn Dynner, ed., Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe, foreword, Moshe Rosman (Judith Kalik) 131
Anna Kaminsky, Dietmar Müller, and Stefan Troebst, eds., assisted by Ines Keske, Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen der Europäer (Gerhard L. Weinberg) 133
Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark, eds., A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Jay Winter) 134
Greg Castillo, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (Katherine Pence) 135
Maria Cizmic, Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe (Larry Sitsky) 137
Sarah B. Snyder, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Jeffrey Kahn) 138
Jan Kláp¹tì, The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation, trans. Sean Mark Miller and Kateøina Millerová, ed. Philadelphia Ricketts (Paul W. Knoll) 139
Michael Laurence Miller, Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (Hillel J. Kieval) 141
Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (Valerie A. Kivelson) 142
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century (Karl K. Barbir) 144
Dominique Kirchner Reill, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice (Robin Okey) 145
Glenn E. Torrey, The Romanian Battlefront in World War I (Richard C. Hall) 146
Erica L. Tucker, Remembering Occupied Warsaw: Polish Narratives of World War II (Piotr Wróbel) 148
Sabrina P. Ramet and Ola Listhaug, eds., Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two (Emily Greble) 149
Heike Amos, Vertriebenenverbände im Fadenkreuz: Aktivitäten der DDR-Staatssicherheit 1949 bis 1989 (Pertti Ahonen) 150
Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte, State Minorities in Communist East Germany (Jennifer A. Yoder) 152
Beata A. Bieniek, Bruno Schulz’ Mythopoesie der Geschlechteridentitäten: Der Götzenblick im Gender-Spiegel (Micha³ Pawe³ Markowski) 153
Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (Irena Grudziñska Gross) 154
Evgenija Garbolevsky, The Conformists: Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema, 1945-89 (Mary Neuburger) 155
Philip V. Bohlman and Nada Petkoviæ, eds., Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (Catherine Baker) 156
Ana Hofman, Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in Serbia (Carol Silverman) 158
Bogusia Puchalska, Limits to Democratic Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe (Roman David) 159
Matthew P. Romaniello, The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (Charles J. Halperin) 160
Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (John T. Alexander) 162
Michael Khodarkovsky, Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus (Willard Sunderland) 163
Karl Schlögel, ed., with the assistance of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, Mastering Russian Spaces: Raum und Raumbewältigung als Problem der russischen Geschichte (Walter Sperling) 165
Nathaniel Deutsch, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Jeffrey Veidlinger) 166
Marjorie L. Hilton, Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930 (James L. West) 167
Carter Elwood, The Non-Geometric Lenin: Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party, 1910-14 (Christopher Read) 169
Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War (John W. Steinberg) 170
Rainkhard Nakhtigal’ [Reinhard Nachtigal], Murmanskaia zheleznaia doroga, 1915-1919 gody: Voennaia neobkhodimost’ i ekonomicheskie soobrazheniia (Henry Reichman) 171
Ol’ga Mikhailovna Morozova, Dva akta dramy: Boevoe proshloe i poslevoennaia povsednevnost’ veteranov grazhdanskoi voiny (Aaron B. Retish) 172
Nikolaus Katzer, Sandra Budy, Alexandra K?hring, and Manfred Zeller, eds., Euphoria and Exhaustion: Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society (Jeffrey W. Jones) 174
Matthias Neumann, The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1931 (William B. Husband) 175
Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Die “inhaftierte” Presse: Das Pressewesen sowjetischer Zwangsarbeitslager, 1923-1937 (Simon Ertz) 177
David Brandenberger, Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927-1941 (E. A. Rees) 178
Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (David Brandenberger) 180
Kare Johan Mjor, Reformulating Russia: The Cultural and Intellectual Historiography of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers (Paul Valliere) 181
Birgit Menzel, Michael Hagemeister, and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, eds., The New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions (George M. Young) 182
Gary Saul Morson, The Long and the Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel (Hugh McLean) 184
N. P. Generalova and V. A. Lukina, eds., I. S. Turgenev: Novye issledovaniia i materialy, 2 vols. (Jane Costlow) 185
Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature: A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of Modernity (Ronald D. LeBlanc) 187
Cristina Beretta, Das erotische Unbehagen in der russischen Literatur um 1900: Subversive Entsagung von Arthur Schopenhauer über Lev Tolstoj und Vladimir Solov’ev zu Fedor Sologub (Otto Boele) 188
Lada Panova, ed., with Sarah Pratt, The Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin: A Miscellany (Judith E. Kalb) 189
Siggy Frank, Nabokov’s Theatrical Imagination (Galya Diment) 191
Charles M. Joseph, Stravinsky’s Ballets (Simon Morrison) 192
Jiøí Smr¾, Symphonic Stalinism: Claiming Russian Musical Classics for the New Soviet Listener, 1932-1953, foreword, Thomas Lahusen and Peter H. Solomon Jr. (Mark Carroll) 193
Natalia Jörg, Schreiben im Exil-Exil im Schreiben: Zur narrative Vermittlung von Exilerfahrungen bei Vladimir Nabokov and Iosif Brodskij (Adrian Wanner) 195
Evgeny Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov, eds., A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond (Yana Hashamova) 196
Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri, Manana Topadze, and Anna Lukianowicz, eds., with the collaboration of Oleg Rumjancev, Languages and Cultures in the Caucasus (Rebecca Gould) 197
Suha Bolukbasi, Azerbaijan: A Political History (Audrey L. Altstadt) 199
Vladimir Gel’man and Cameron Ross, eds., The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia (Elise Giuliano) 200
Eric McGlinchey, Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (Michele E. Commercio) 202
J. Paul Goode, The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues (Gulnaz Sharafutdinova) 203
Olena Nikolayenko, Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States (Valerie Sperling) 205
Maya Eichler, Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War and Post-Soviet Russia (Adi Kuntsman) 206