Volume 80
Issues
CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: The Sociology of Protest in Belarus-Social Dynamics, Ideological Shifts and Demand for Change
Introduction: The Sociology of Belarusian Protest
Nelly Bekus and Mischa Gabowitsch 1
Echo of 1989? Protest Imaginaries and Identity Dilemmas in Belarus
Nelly Bekus 4
“Tear Down These Prison Walls!” Verses of Defiance in the Belarusian Revolution
Simon Lewis 15
Belarusian Protest: Regimes of Engagement and Coordination
Mischa Gabowitsch 27
How Feminist is the Belarusian Revolution? Female Agency and Participation in the 2020 Post-Election Protests
Natalia Paulovich 38
Class, Agency, and Citizenship in Belarusian Protest
Elena Gapova 45
The Anatomy of Impatience: Exploring Factors behind 2020 Labor Unrest in Belarus
Volodymyr Artiukh 52
The Moral Economy of the Kolkhoz Worker, Or Why the Protest Movement in Belarus Does
Not Seem to Concern the Collectivized Countryside
Ronan Hervouet 61
ARTICLES
Calendar Reform under Peter the Great: Absolutist Prerogatives, Plural Temporalities, and
Andreas Schönle 69
An Ancient in Catherinian Russia: Classical Reception, Sensibility, and Nobility in
Princess Ekaterina Urusova’s Poetry of the 1770s
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev 90
“To a Dog, a Dog’s Death!”: Naive Monarchism and Regicide in Imperial Russia, 1878-1884
Daniel Beer 112
FEATURED REVIEWS 133
BOOK REVIEWS 143
COLLECTED ESSAYS 190
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 194
IN MEMORIAM 198
Number 2, Summer 2021
CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM ON RACE AND BIAS
Introduction
Joy Carew and Christina Kiaer 203
When Race Is a Language and Empire Is a Context
Marina Mogilner 207
A Moment of Reckoning: Transcending Bias, Engaging Race and Racial Formations
in Slavic and East European Studies
Sunnie Rucker-Chang and Chelsi West Ohueri 216
The Invisibility of Race in Sociological Research on Contemporary Russia:
Marina Yusupova 224
Reading Race in Slavic Studies Scholarship through a Digital Lens
Hilah Kohen, Katherine M. H. Reischl, Andrew Janco, Susan Grunewald and
Antonina Puchkovskaia 234
When Pushkin’s Blackness Was in Vogue: Rediscovering the Racialization of Russia’s
Preeminent Poet and His Descendants
Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang 245
Race-ing the Russian Nineteenth Century
Edyta M. Bojanowska 258
Exotic Aesthetics: Representations of Blackness in Nineteenth- Century Russian Painting
Maria Taroutina 267
A Sphinx upon the Dnieper: Black Modernism and the Yiddish Translation of Race
Eli Rosenblatt 280
Racism, the Highest Stage of Anti-Communism
Rossssen Djagalov 290
A Cold War Cold Case: What Huldah Clark Can Teach Us about Teaching Soviet History
Brigid O’Keeffe 299
Rereading Russia through the Contact Zone of HBCUs
Kelly Knickckmeier Cummings and B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz 307
The Afterlife of Soviet Russia’s “Refusal to be White”:
A Du Boisian Lens on Post-Soviet Russian-US Relations
Christy Monet 316
Subjects, Subjectivities, and Slavic Studies: A Design for Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Erin Katherine Krafft 327
The Contingent Problem: A Counter-Narrative on Race and Class in the Field of Slavic Studies
Louis Howard Porter 334
ARTICLES
Kalmyk DPs and the Narration of Displacement in Post-World War II Europe
Elvira Churyumova and Edward C. Holland 341
The Man Who Struck the Judge with a Fly Swatter: Justice and Performance in Contemporary Kazakhstan
Nari Shelekpayev 363
REVIEW ESSAY 383
FILM REVIEWS 390
BOOK REVIEWS 397
REFERENCE BOOKS OF 2019-2020: A SELECTION 452
COLLECTED ESSAYS 458
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 464
IN MEMORIAM 466
Number 3, Fall 2021
CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: AUTHORITY AND POWER IN RUSSIA
Oleg Kharkhordin 469
Response to “Authority and Power in Russia”
Anthony Kaldellis 489
Nancy Shields Kollmann 492
The Third Rome and Russian Republicanism: A Comment on Oleg Kharkhordin
“Power and Authority in Russia”
Miguel Vatter 498
ARTICLES
“First Love Is Exactly Like Revolution”: Intimacy as Political Allegory in
Ivan Turgenev’s Novella Spring Torrents
Alexey Vdovinand Pavel Uspenskij 504
Czechoslovak Tariffs in the 1920s: An Example of Historical Specificity in Economic Policy
Oldřich Krpec and Vít Hloušek 523
Škoda Arms Exports in the 1930s
Aleš Skřivan Jr. and Tereza Burianová 544
Small Socialism: The Scales of Self-Management Culture in Postwar Yugoslavia
James Robertson 563
Democratic Backsliding in Poland and Hungary
Michael Bernhard 585
Political Game-Changers: The Importance of Leaders for Newly Emerged Parties in Romania
Sergiu Gherghina and Marius Grad 608
REVIEW ESSAY 629
FEATURED REVIEW 636
FILM REVIEWS 641
BOOK REVIEWS 646
COLLECTED ESSAYS 714
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 719
IN MEMORIAM 721
Number 4, Winter 2021
CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: Crisis, Contingency, and the Future of REEES-
Perspectives on the Present and Future of the Field
Introduction
Jason Cieply, Rossen Djagalov, Natalia Plagmann 727
Addressing Contingency in REEES Fields
Ania Aizman 731
An Unstable Bridge: A REEES Graduate Student Perspective on Contemporary Academia
Caitlin Giustiniano and Zachary Hicks 741
ARTICLES
Slutsk in 1920: Entangled Fighters, Locals, and Conflicts
Aleksandra Pomiecko 749
The Poetics of Shock: “The Pitiful Vice” in Khodasevich’s “Under the Ground”
Edward Waysband 769
The Thaw’s Provincial Margins: Place, Community and Canon in Pages from Tarusa
Polly Jones 792
The Problems of Perestroika: The KGB and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Reforms
Simon Miles 816
Nuclear Power as Cultural Heritage in Russia
Egle Rindzevičiute 839
Vasilina Orlova 863
REVIEW ESSAY 883
FEATURED REVIEWS 892
FILM REVIEW 900
BOOK REVIEWS 906
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 2019 975
COLLECTED ESSAYS 989
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 994
INDEX 996