Volume 69

Issues

Number 1, Spring 2010

POSTSOCIALISMS UNBOUND

Douglas Rogers, Special Section Guest Editor

Postsocialisms Unbound: Connections, Critiques, Comparisons
Douglas Rogers  1

Kinship and Crisis: The Embedding of Economic Pressures and Gender Ideals in Postsocialist International Matchmaking
Jennifer Patico  16

“There’s Nothing Anyone Can Do About It”: Participation, Apathy, and “Successful” Democratic Transition in Postsocialist Serbia
Jessica Greenberg  41

ARTICLES

Rural Reform and the Gender Gap in Post-Soviet Russia
Stephen K. Wegren, Valery V. Patsiorkovsky, and David J. O’Brien  65

Imagined Noncommunities: National Indifference as a Category of Analysis
Tara Zahra  93

FORUM: COLONIALISM AND TECHNOCRACY AT THE END OF THE TSARIST ERA

The Ministry of Asiatic Russia: The Colonial Office That Never Was But Might Have Been
Willard Sunderland  120

“In Accord with State Interests and the People’s Wishes”: The Technocratic Ideology of Imperial Russia’s Resettlement Administration
Peter Holquist  151

On “Colonial” Forms and Functions
Robert Geraci  180

Russian Statecraft after the “Imperial Turn”: The Urge to Colonize?
David MacLaren McDonald  185

FEATURED REVIEWS 189
BOOK REVIEWS 205
COLLECTED ESSAYS 271
LETTERS 273
IN MEMORIAM 274

Number 2, Summer 2010

SIEGE OF LENINGRAD REVISITED: NARRATIVE, IMAGE, SELF

Polina Barskova, Special Section Guest Editor

Introduction
Polina Barskova  277

Recovering the Past for the Future: Guilt, Memory, and Lidiia Ginzburg’s Notes of a Blockade Person
Emily Van Buskirk  281

A Politeia in Besiegement: Lidiia Ginzburg on the Siege of Leningrad as a Political Paradigm
Irina Sandomirskaia  306

The Spectacle of the Besieged City: Repurposing Cultural Memory in Leningrad, 1941-1944
Polina Barskova  327

ARTICLES

The Liberal Gene: Sociobiology as Emancipatory Discourse in the Late Soviet Union
Yvonne Howell  356

Skyscrapers, Consular Territory, and Hell: What Bulgakov and Eizenshtein Learned about Space from Il’f and Petrov’s America
Anne Nesbet  377

FORUM: DIVIDES AND ENDS-PERIODIZING THE EARLY MODERN IN RUSSIAN HISTORY

Micro-Periodization and Dynasticism: Was There a Divide in the Reign of Ivan the Terrible?
Sergei Bogatyrev  398

The Petrine Divide and the Periodization of Early Modern Russian History
Russell E. Martin  410

The End of Muscovy: The Case for circa 1800
Donald Ostrowski  426

Comment: Divides and Ends-The Problem of Periodization
Nancy S. Kollmann  439

FEATURED REVIEWS 448
BOOK REVIEWS 456
COLLECTED ESSAYS 528
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 530
LETTERS 534
IN MEMORIAM 535

Number 3, Fall 2010

NATIONS ON DISPLAY: WORLD’S FAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND

Mary Neuburger, Special Section Guest Editor

Introduction: Exhibiting Eastern Europe
Mary Neuburger  539

Fair Encounters: Bulgaria and the “West” at International Exhibitions from Plovdiv to St. Louis
Mary Neuburger  547

Articulating Identity through the Technological Rearticulation of Space: The Hungarian Millennial Exhibition as World’s Fair and the Disordering of Fin-de-Siecle Budapest
Dorothy Barenscott  571

Rodin in Prague: Modern Art, Cultural Diplomacy, and National Display
Cathleen M. Giustino  591

ARTICLES

Witnessing for the Defense: The Adversarial Court and Narratives of Criminal Behavior in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Louise McReynolds  620

The Economy of Nerves: Health, Commercial Culture, and the Self in Late Imperial Russia
Susan K. Morrissey  645

Too Much Trust: Regional Party Leaders and Local Political Networks under Brezhnev
Yoram Gorlizki  676

Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family Support in Russia: Toward a Feminist Anthropology of “Maternity Capital”
Michele Rivkin-Fish  701

FEATURED REVIEWS 725
FILM REVIEW 731
BOOK REVIEWS 733
REFERENCE BOOKS OF 2008-2009: A SELECTION 798
COLLECTED ESSAYS 802
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 805
IN MEMORIAM 807

Number 4, Winter 2010

CHALLENGING CROSSROADS: MACEDONIA IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Victor A. Friedman, Susan L. Woodward, and Keith Brown, Special Section Guest Editors

Introduction
Victor A. Friedman  811

From the Balkans to Baghdad (via Baltimore): Labor Migration and the Routes of Empire
Keith Brown  816

On the Politics of Imid¾: European Integration and the Trials of Recognition in Postconflict Macedonia
Andrew Graan  835

Consuming Ethnicity: Loss, Commodities, and Space in Macedonia
Rozita Dimova  859

Postsocialism, Social Value, and Identity Politics among Albanians in Macedonia
Vasiliki P. Neofotistos  882

ARTICLES

Political Volatility and Governance in East Central Europe
Carolyn Forestiere  903

Turgenev and a Proliferating French Press: The Feuilleton and Feuilletonistic in A Nest of the Gentry
Melissa Frazier  925

Conversing with Stalin, Surviving the Terror: The Diaries of Aleksandra Kollontai and the Internal Life of Politics
Beatrice Farnsworth  944

FEATURED REVIEWS 971
BOOK REVIEWS 981
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 2009  1047
COLLECTED ESSAYS 1065
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 1067
IN MEMORIAM 1069
INDEX  1071