Volume 56
Issues
Number 1, Spring 1997
ARTICLES
Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva in Unpublished Letters to Her Son Ivan (1838-1844)
James L. Rice (page 1)
Stricken by Infection: Art and Adultery in Anna Karenina and Kreutzer Sonata
David Herman (page 15)
The Word Made Flesh in Dostoevskii's Possessed
Russell S. Valentino (page 37)
The Mystery of the ABC
Lars T. Lih (page 50)
"Alien" Personnel in the Soviet State: The People's Commissariat of Agriculture under
Proletarian Dictatorship, 1918-1929
James W. Heinzen (page 73)
Who Rules Siauliai? A Case Study of an Emerging Urban Regime
Terry D. Clark (page 101)
BOOK REVIEWS - page 123
COLLECTED ESSAYS - page 174
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 180
LETTERS - page 184
ERRATA - page 186
Number 2, Summer 1997
ARTICLES
The Master and Margarita and The Poetics of Aporia: A Polemical Article
Gary Rosenshield (page 187)
Roll Out the Barrels: Emptiness, Fullness, and the Picaresque-Idyllic Dynamic in Vasilii
Aksenov's "Zatovarennaia bochkotara"
Laura Beraha (page 212)
Modelling the Reading Act: Gogol''s Mute Scene and Its Intertexts
Judith Robey (page 233)
The Soviet Union as a Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category Nationality in the
1926, 1937, and 1939 Censuses
Francine Hirsch (page 251)
Part of History: The Oral Record and Moscow's Model School No. 25, 1931-1937
Larry E. Holmes (page 279)
Students, Workers, and Social Change: The Limits of Czech Stalinism
John Connelly (page 307)
BOOK REVIEWS - page 336
COLLECTED ESSAYS - page 392
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 396
Number 3, Fall 1997
ARTICLES
Liberalism and the Construction of the Democratic Subject in Postcommunism: The Case of
Poland
Janine P. Holc (page 401)
Venice and the Slavs of Dalmatia: The Drama of the Adriatic Empire in the Venetian
Enlightenment
Larry Wolff (page 428)
Baptism, Authority, and the Problem of Zakonnost' in Orenburg Diocese: The Induction of over
800 "Pagans" Were Inducted into the Christian Faith
Paul W. Werth (page 456)
Another Kind of Fear: The Kirov Murder and the End of Bread Rationing in Leningrad
Lesley A. Rimmel (page 481)
Aleksei Gastev and the Metallization of the Revolutionary Body
Rolf Hellebust (page 500)
From Subversion to Affirmation: The Prose Poem as a Russian Genre
Adrian Wanner (page 519)
REVIEW ESSAY
Bringing Postcommunist Societies into Democratization Studies
Gerardo L. Munck (page 542)
BOOK REVIEWS - page 551
REFERENCE BOOKS OF 1995-96: A SELECTION - page 596
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 606
LETTERS - page 609
ERRATUM - page 611
Number 4, Winter 1997
ARTICLES
Containing the Spectacle of Punishment: The Russian Autocracy and the Abolition of the Knout,
1817-1845
Abby M. Schrader (page 613)
Cinema for the "Soviet East": National Fact and Revolutionary Fiction in Early Azerbaijani Film
Michael G. Smith (page 645)
The Giesche Company: Anaconda Copper's Subsidiary in Interwar Poland
Daniel Stone (page 679)
Public Opinion and the 1996 Elections in Russia: Nostalgic and Statist, Yet Pro-Market and
Pro-Yeltsin
David S. Mason and Svetlana Sidorenko-Stephenson (page 698)
Increasing Reference Access to Post-1991 Russian Archives
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (page 718)
BOOK REVIEWS - page 760
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 1996 - page 825
COLLECTED ESSAYS - page 842
OBITUARY - page 847
LETTERS - page 850
INDEX - page 852