Volume 81
Issues
CLUSTER: The Soviet Steppe-Transformations and Imaginaries
Introduction
Christine Bichsel, Ekaterina Filep, Julia Obertreis 1
Steppes to Health: How the Climate-Kumys Cure Shaped a New Steppe Imaginary
Maya Peterson 8
Reinventing the Steppe: The Agromeliorative Complex in the Russian Periphery
Timm Schönfelder 32
The Alien Republic: Narratives of Deterritorialization in Imaginations of Turkmenistan
from the Late 19th to the Late 20th Century
Clemens Gunther 55
ARTICLES
Nomadic Nobles: Pastoralism and Privilege in the Russian Empire
Gulmira Sultangalieva, lzhanTuleshova, and Paul W. Werth 77
Postwar Rebuilding and Resettlements in the Soviet Union: A Case of Azeri Migration
Krista Goff 97
“A Colony of Alien Capital”: French Investments, Polish Identity, and a Story of
Murder in 1930s Warsaw
Jerzy £azor 122
Marriage, Gender and Demographic Change: Managing Fertility in
State-Socialist Poland
Natalia Jarska and Agata Ignaciuk 142
Low Spirits and Immoderate Meditations in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva-Petushki
Julia Vaingurt 163
REVIEW ESSAY 187
FEATURED REVIEWS 195
FILM REVIEWS 204
BOOK REVIEWS 211
COLLECTED ESSAYS 285
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 290
LETTERS 293
IN MEMORIAM 295
Number 2, Summer 2022
ARTICLES
Is Ukraine a Multiethnic Country?
Volodymyr Kulyk 299
Was Tolstoi a Colonial Landlord? The Dilemmas of Private Property and
Settler Colonialism on the Bashkir Steppe
Edyta M. Bojanowska 324
Words on Trial: Morality and Legality in Frida Vigdorova’s Journalism
Rebecca Reich 349
“The Master Rarely Casts His Eye Here”: Water and Urban Infrastructure in
Postwar Vladivostok
Rustam Khan 370
Histories of Color: Blackness and Africanness in the Soviet Union
Hilary Lynd and Thom Loyd 394
“Are there Racists in Yugoslavia?” Debating Racism and Anti-blackness in
Socialist Yugoslavia
Peter Wright 418
The Islamic Framing of the Economic Activities of Salafi-oriented Muslims in Dagestan,
North Caucasus: An Anthropological Approach
Iwona Kaliszewska, Jagoda Schmidt, and Marek Kaleta 442
REVIEW ESSAY 462
FEATURED REVIEWS 465
FILM REVIEWS 469
BOOK REVIEWS 475
REFERENCE BOOKS OF 2020-2021: A SELECTION 566
COLLECTED ESSAYS 576
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 580
IN MEMORIAM 583
Number 3, Fall 2022
ARTICLES
Law of the Forest: Early Legal Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the
Inter-Imperial Transition between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Rule, 1878-1901
Iva Luèiæ 585
The “Vanishing Indian” and the Vanishing Pole: From a Middle Ground to a Logic of
Elimination in the European and Global Periphery, 1840-1880
Raymond A. Patton 609
“Call Me by My Name:” A “Strange and Incomprehensible” Passion in the
Polish Kresy of the 1920s
Kamil Karczewski 631
Che³m’s Unraveling: The Holocaust and Interethnic Violence in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Jason Tingler 653
Theodor Oberländer and the Nachtigall Battalion in 1959/60-an Entangled History
of Propaganda, Politics, and Memory in East and West
Kai Struve 677
The Silence of the Occupied in Czech Literature, 1940-46
Rajendra A. Chitnis 701
A Reluctant Opposition: Soviet Liberals within the Moscow Tribune
Guillaume Sauvé 722
REVIEW ESSAY 745
BOOK REVIEWS 753
COLLECTED ESSAYS 855
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 860
IN MEMORIAM 862
Number 4, Winter 2022
CLUSTER: (Multi)national Faces of Socialist Realism-Beyond the Russian Literary Canon
Introduction
Evgeny Dobrenko, Klavdia Smola 865
Hegemony of Brotherhood: The Birth of Soviet Multinational Literature, 1922-1932
Evgeny Dobrenko 869
“Critical Appropriation of Literary Heritage” and the Shaping of Soviet National
Literatures: A Close Reading of the Debate in the Journal Literaturnyi kritik
(The Literary Critic, 1933-36)
Susanne Frank 891
National Form: The Evolution of Georgian Socialist Realism
Zaal Andronikashvili 914
The Lithuanian Version of Socialist Realism: An Imposed Doctrine and
Incorporated Tradition
Dalia Satkauskyte 936
(Re)shaping Literary Canon in the Soviet Indigenous North
Klavdia Smola 955
ARTICLES
The (Un)making of a Man: Aleksandr Aleksandrov/Nadezhda Durova
Ruth Averbach 976
The Hungarian Nationalities Act of 1868 in Operation (1868-1914)
Ágoston Berecz 994
No More Godmen: Alexandre Kojeve, Atheism, and Vladimir Solov?ev
Trevor Wilson 1016
REVIEW ESSAY 1037
FEATURED REVIEW 1046
FILM REVIEWS 1049
BOOK REVIEWS 1053
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 2021 1137
COLLECTED ESSAYS 1149
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 1151
IN MEMORIAM 1153
INDEX 1155