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