Current Issue
Volume 75
Number 2, Summer
2016
RUSSIAN GEOPOETICS
Introduction: Toward a Russian Geopoetics, or Some Ways of Relating Russia to the World
Anindita Banerjee and Jenifer Presto, Special Section Guest Editors 247
Reading Gogol’ in Azeri: Parodic Genealogies and the Revolutionary Geopoetics of 1905
Leah Feldman 256
Tashkent ’68: a Cinematic Contact Zone
Rossen Djagalov and Masha Salazkina 279
Scripted Spaces: The Geopoetics of the Newspaper from Tret’iakov to Prigov
Jacob Edmond 299
ARTICLES
A Genealogy of Kontrol’ in Russia: From Leninist to Neoliberal Governance
Catherine Owen 331
Russia and the Vulnerability of Electoral Authoritarianism?
Graeme Gill 354
Energy as Power-Gazprom, Gas Infrastructure, and Geo-governmentality in Putin’s Russia
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 374
The Red Army in Yugoslavia, 1944-1945
Vojin Majstorović 396
Violence and the Production of Borders in Western Slavonia
Mila Dragojević 422
REVIEW ESSAY
Stephen White, Richard Sakwa, and Henry E. Hale, Eds., Developments in Russian Politics 8; Samuel A. Greene, Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia; Ellen Mickiewicz, No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders (Sarah Henderson) 446
FEATURED REVIEWS
Katherine Verdery, Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police (Dennis Deletant) 454
Paul Manning, Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia (Martin Demant Frederiksen) 457
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist; Fascism, Genocide, and Cult (Kai Struve) 459
Yanni Kotsonis, States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic (John Randolph) 463
BOOK REVIEWS
Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky, Eds., Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered (Adrian Jones) 467
Markian Prokopovych, In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884-1918 (Robert Nemes) 468
Aurimas Švedas, In the Captivity of the Matrix: Soviet Lithuanian Historiography, 1944-1985 (Edward Cohn) 470
Rayk Einax, Entstaliniseirung auf Weißrussisch: Krisenbewältigung, sozioökonomische Dynamik und öffentliche Mobilisierung in der Belorussischen Sowjetrepublik 1953-1965 (Per Anders Rudling) 471
Michael North, The Baltic: A History (Andrejs Plakans) 472
David Marples, “Our Glorious Past”: Lukashenka’s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (Stephen White) 473
Norman J. W. Goda, ed., Jewish Histories of the Holocaust. New Transnational Approaches (Natalia Aleksiun) 475
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Samuel Kassow) 477
Anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, trans. and ed. Samual Schalkowsky (Christopher R. Browning) 478
Ulrich Schmid, ed., Schwert, Kreuz und Adler. Die Ästhetik des nationalistischen Diskurses in Polen (1926-1939)
(Christoph Augustynowicz) 480
Scott Moranda, The People’s Own Landscape: Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany (Molly Wilkinson Johnson) 481
Tom Junes, Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent (David G. Tompkins) 482
Armina Omerika, Islam in Bosnien-Herzegowina und die Netzwerke der Jungmuslime (1918-1983) (Bojan Aleksov) 484
John Paul Newman, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State-Building, 1903 - 1945 (Rory Yeomans) 485
Thomas Ort, Art and Life in Modernist Prague : Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938 (Maria Nemcova Banerjee) 486
Thomas G. Winner, The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars. (Peter Steiner) 488
David S. Danaher, Reading Václav Havel (Rajendra A. Chitnis) 489
Maxim Tarnawsky, The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts’kyi’s Realist Prose (Oleh S. Ilnytzkyi) 491
Joshua First, Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw (Bohdan Nebesio) 492
Matthew D. Pauly, Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934 (Tom Ewing) 493
Viktor Stepanenko and Yaroslav Pylynskyi, Eds. Ukraine After the Euromaidan: Challenges and Hopes (Jessica Pisano) 495
Keith Doubt, Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rada Drezgić) 496
Azra Hromadžić, Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Maple Rasza) 497
James Dawson, Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria: How Ideas Shape Publics (Venelin I. Ganev) 499
Péter Bajomi-Lázár, Party Colonization of the Media in Central and Eastern Europe (Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin) 501
Tamás Krausz, Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography (Christopher Read) 502
Antonella Castelnuovo and Bella Kotok-Friedgut, Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition (Harry Daniels) 504
Elena I. Campbell, The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance (Gary Hamburg) 506
Silvio Pons, The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism, 1917-1991 (Vladislav Zubok) 507
Lewis Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch, Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Twentieth-Century Russia
(Denis Kozlov) 508
Margaret Peacock, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War (Matthias Neumann) 510
Elena Nosenko-Shtein, Peredaite ob etom detiam vashim, a ikh deti sleduiushchemu rodu”:
Kul’turnaia pamiat’ u rossiiskikh evreev v nashi dni (Elissa Bemporad) 511
Choi Chatterjee, David L. Ransel, Mary Cavender, and Karen Petrone, eds. Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present
(Diane P. Koenker) 513
Melissa Chakar, The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov) 515
Slava Gerovitch, Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space (Michael G. Smith) 516
Olga Bakich, Valerii Pereleshin: Life of a Silkworm (Adrian Wanner) 517
Marianna Leonova, Wandel der Sinngenese in der russischen Literatur von der Romantik bis zur Postmoderne. Eine strukturelle Typologie
(Ulrich Schmid) 519
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, ed., Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (Alexander Burry) 520
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History
(Vitaly Chernetsky) 522
Frederick H. White, Degeneration, Decadence and Disease in the Russian fin de siecle: Neurasthenia in the Life and Work of
Leonid Andreev (Olga M. Cooke) 523
Victoria Somoff, The Imperative of Reliability: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820s-1850s (Elizabeth Cheresh Allen) 524
Il’ia Kukulin, Mashiny zashumevshego vremeni: Kak sovetskii montazh stal metodom neofitsial’noi kul’tury (Tomi Huttunen) 526
Yurii Al’bert, Moskovskii kontseptualizm: Nachalo (Mary A. Nicholas) 527
Julie Hansen and Andrei Rogachevskii, Punishment as a Crime? Perspectives on Prison Experience in Russian Culture (Leona Toker) 529
Olga Tabachnikova, Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky: Seven Essays in Literature and Thought (Jeff Love) 530
Elizabeth A. Skomp and Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance (Tatyana Novikova) 532
Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina, Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes
(Tuomas Forsberg) 533
Michael O. Slobodchikoff, Building Hegemonic Order Russia’s Way: Order, Stability, and Predictability in the Post-Soviet Space
(Lisa A. Baglione) 534
Nikolay Zakharov, Race and Racism in Russia (Mikhail Suslov) 536
Vladimir Gel’man, Otar Marganiya and Dmitry Travin, Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia: 1985-2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes; Vladimir Gel’man Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes (Catherine Owen) 537