Volume 58
Issues
Number 1, Spring 1999
DISCUSSION
New Approaches to Old Problems: The Well-Being of the Population of Russia from 1821 to 1910 as Measured by Physical Stature
Boris N. Mironov (page 1)
The Great Leap Upwards: Anthropometric Data and Indicators of Crises and Secular Change in Soviet Welfare Levels, 1880-1960
Stephen G. Wheatcroft (page 27)
Tall Tales: Anthropometric Measures of Well-Being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960
Steven L. Hoch (page 61)
On the Biological Standard of Living in Russia and the Soviet Union
John Komlos (page 71)
Tall Requirements and "Small" Reality
Boris N. Mironov (page 80)
Toward an Objective Evaluation of the Complexities of Soviet Social Reality under Stalin
Stephen G. Wheatcroft (page 91)
ARTICLES
Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii's Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being
Stephen C. Hutchings (page 96)
The Ambivalence of Authenticity, or How the Moldovan Language Was Made
Charles King (page 117)
Singing on the Steppes for Stalin: Ivan Pyr'ev and the Kolkhoz Musical in Soviet Cinema
Richard Taylor (page 143)
The Rudolf Slánsky Affair: New Evidence
Igor Lukes (page 160)
BOOK REVIEWS - page 188
COLLECTED ESSAYS - page 273
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 277
LETTERS - page 281
Number 2, Summer 1999 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Aleksandr Pushkin 1799-1999
Stephanie Sandler, Guest Editor
Introduction
Stephanie Sandler (page 283)
Historicism or Providentialism? Pushkin's History of Pugachev in the Context of French Romantic Historiography
Alexander Dolinin (page 291)
The Ace in the "Queen of Spades"
Sergei Davydov (page 309
Adding to the "Guest" List: Hugo's Hernani and Pushkin's Don Juan
David Shengold (page 329)
Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman and Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow": A Curious Case of Cultural Cross-Fertilization?
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashch (page 337)
Love, Friendship, and Poetic Voice in Aleksandr Pushkin's Lycée Elegies
James L. Morgan IV (page 352)
Pushkin's Ironic Performances as a Gambler
Ian M. Helfant (page 371
Writing the Story of Pushkin's Death
Leslie O'Bell (page 393)
The Patriots' Pushkin
Wendy Slater (page 407)
REVIEW ESSAYS
The New Academy Pushkin: Toward a Definitive Text
Andrew Kahn (page 428)
Thus Spoke Moskovskii Pushkinist: Aleksandr Pushkin in Contemporary Russian Scholarship
Brian Horowitz (page 434)
Iurii Lotman's Pushkiniana
Irina Reyfman (page 440)
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin on the World Wide Web: An Annotated Bibliography
Ann Marsh-Flores (page 445)
A. S. PUSHKIN - page 449
BOOK REVIEWS - page 510
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 461
Number 3, Fall 1999
ARTICLES
The Nonconformists: Dobrica Cosic and Mica Popovic Envision Serbia
Nicholas J. Miller (page 515)
Body of the Nation: Mothering, Prostitution, and Women's Place in Postcommunist Latvia
Daina Stukuls (page 537)
Aleksandr Polezhaev and Remembrance of War in the Caucasus: Constructions of the Soldier as Victim
Susan Layton (page 559)
The Passion of Dmitrii Karamazov
Carol A. Flath (page 584)
Boundaries of Art in Nabokov's The Gift: Reading as Transcendence
Stephen H. Blackwell (page 600)
REVIEW ESSAYS
The Icebreaker Controversy: Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler?
Teddy J. Uldricks (page 626)
In Search of a Vanished World
Boris Gasparov (page 644)
BOOK REVIEWS - page 652
REFERENCE BOOKS OF 1997-98: A SELECTION - page 723
COLLECTED ESSAYS - page 731
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 735
LETTERS - page 739
Number 4, Winter 1999 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Ten Years after 1989: What Have We Learned?
Philip G. Roeder, Guest Editor
ARTICLES
The Revolution of 1989: Postcommunism and the Social Sciences
Philip G. Roeder (page 743)
The Political Economy of Postsocialism
Valerie Bunce (page 756)
Postcommunist Subversion: Social Science and Democratization in East Europe and Eurasia
M. Steven Fish (page 794)
Geography and Transition: Reconceptualizing Systemic Change in the Former Soviet Union
Nicholas J. Lynn (page 824)
Comrades into Citizens? Russian Political Culture and Public Support for the Transition
Donna Bahry (page 841)
Peoples and States after 1989: The Political Costs of Incomplete National Revolutions
Philip G. Roeder (page 854)
FILM REVIEWS - page 883
BOOK REVIEWS - page 885
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 1998 - page 951
COLLECTED ESSAYS - page 966
BOOKS RECEIVED - page 971
OBITUARIES - page 974
INDEX - page 976