Volume 67
Issues
Number 1, Spring 2008
BORAT: SELVES AND OTHERS
Our Borats, Our Selves: Yokels and Cosmopolitans on the Global Stage
Eliot Borenstein 1
Borat the Trickster: Folklore and the Media, Folklore in the Media
Natalie Kononenko and Svitlana Kukharenko 8
Borat, Multiculturalism, Mnogonatsional’nost’
Steven S. Lee 19
Hyperrealizing “Borat” with the Map of the European “Other”
Dickie Wallace 35
Transnational Image Making and Soft Authoritarian Kazakhstan
Edward Schatz 50
Buying into Brand Borat: Kazakhstan’s Cautious Embrace of Its Unwanted “Son”
Robert A. Saunders 63
Comments
If the Subaltern Speaks in the Woods and Nobody’s Listening, Does He Make a Sound?
Paula A. Michaels 81
Borat: Putting the Id Back in Identity Politics
Nancy Condee 84
Articles
East and West Kiss: Gender, Orientalism, and Balkanism in Muslim-Majority Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elissa Helms 88
Images
Demonizing Judaism in the Soviet Union during the 1920s
Robert Weinberg 120
Images
Speaking National: Nationalizing the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1939
Theodora Dragostinova 154
FEATURED REVIEWS 182
BOOK REVIEWS 189
COLLECTED ESSAYS 262
BOOKS RECEIVED 265
LETTERS 269
IN MEMORIAM 273
Number 2, Summer 2008
ARTICLES
“Kennst du das Land?” The Uncertainty of Galicia in the Age of Metternich and Fredro
Larry Wolff 277
Competing Languages of Czech Nation-Building: Jan Kollár and the Melodiousness of Czech
David L. Cooper 301
Between Spiritual Self and Other: Vladimir Solov’ev and the Question of East Asia
Susanna Soojung Lim 321
“Banality of Evil,” Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject: Varlam Shalamov and Hannah Arendt
Svetlana Boym 342
Julia Kristeva: Exile and Geopolitics of the Balkans
Duıan I. Bjeliĉ 364
DISCUSSION
“Genocide Denial” Laws as Secular Heresy: A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia
Robert M. Hayden 384
Comment: In Support of the Legal Determination of Genocide
Sari Wastell 408
Comment: On the Meaning of Genocide and Genocide Denial
Eric D. Weitz 415
Reply
Robert M. Hayden 419
REVIEW ESSAY
In medias res: A Diary of the Moscow Theater Season, 2007-2008
Monika Greenleaf 422
FEATURED REVIEWS 437
FILM REVIEW 444
BOOK REVIEWS 446
COLLECTED ESSAYS 533
BOOKS RECEIVED 536
LETTERS 540
IN MEMORIAM 542
Number 3, Fall 2008
ON THE BORDERS OF THE SILVER AGE
Robert Bird and Lina Steiner, Special Section Guest Editors
Introduction
Lina Steiner 547
Heroic Aesthetics and Modernist Critique: Extrapolations from Bakhtin’s Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity
Ilya Kliger 551
Masks of the Poet, Myths of the People: The Performance of Individuality and Nationhood in Georgian and Russian Modernism
Harsha Ram 567
Lyricism and Philosophy in Brodsky’s Elegiac Verse
Aaron Beaver 591
Visual Poetry after Modernism: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova
Stephanie Sandler 610
Images
ARTICLES
Violating the Canon: Reading Der Nister with Vasilii Grossman
Harriet Murav 642
Russian Hybrids: Identity in the Translingual Writings of Andrei Makine, Wladimir Kaminer, and Gary Shteyngart
Adrian Wanner 662
DISCUSSION
Revisionism in Retrospect: A Personal View
Sheila Fitzpatrick 682
Comment: Revisionism Avant la Lettre
Robert V. Daniels 705
Comment: Codes and Confessions
J. Arch Getty 711
Comment: Life and Fate of Western Revisionism
Elena A. Osokina 716
Comment: Of Archives and Frogs: Iconoclasm in Historical Perspective
Jochen Hellbeck 720
FEATURED REVIEWS 724
FILM REVIEW 732
BOOK REVIEWS 734
REFERENCE BOOKS OF 2006-2007: A SELECTION 802
COLLECTED ESSAYS 806
BOOKS RECEIVED 809
IN MEMORIAM 814
Number 4, Winter 2008
ARTICLES
Tendentious Modernism: Karel Teige’s Path to Functionalism
Peter Zusi 821
A “Polyphony of Voices”? Czech Popular Opinion and the Slánskŭ Affair
Kevin McDermott 840
Casualties of Conflict: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War
Mara Kozelsky 866
Freud, Tatlin, and the Tower: How Soviet Psychoanalysts Might Have Interpreted the Monument to the Third International
Alexei Alexeyevich Kurbanovsky 892
DISPLAYING THE NATION AND MODERNITY IN RUSSIA: DIRECTIONS IN RUSSIAN MUSEUM STUDIES
Katia Dianina, Special Section Guest Editor
Museum and Society in Imperial Russia: An Introduction
Katia Dianina 907
Art, Nationhood, and Display: Zinaida Volkonskaia and Russia’s Quest for a National Museum of Art
Rosalind P. Blakesley 912
Pictures at an Exhibition: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society in Imperial Russia
Joseph Bradley 934
Images
REVIEW ESSAY
Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective
Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone 967
BOOK REVIEWS 987
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 2007 1049
COLLECTED ESSAYS 1070
BOOKS RECEIVED 1074
LETTERS 1078
IN MEMORIAM 1081
INDEX 1086